A view of Manchhar Lake from RD-62 of its embankment, locally known as Bund Manchhar, on July 16. Photo credit: Maula Bux An elderly fisherman, Maula Bux Mallah, looks out over Manchhar Lake from his small grocery shop at RD-62 on the lake’s dyke. Beyond that point, a considerable stretch of the sprawling lake bed lies bonedry this summer. The lake has received little to no inflows from its usual sources — natural waterways and streams, as well as the Main Nara Valley Drain (MNVD), now known as the Right Bank Outfall Drain-I (RBOD-I). “The lake bed has remained dry for several months. You can see it from other points along the embankment, where fishermen’s wooden boats now line…

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