Pervaiz Amir, country director of the Pakistan Water Partnership, a chapter of the Stockholm - based Global Water Partnership, said the government should focus on establishing heat trauma centers and restoring water and electricity supplies, especially in slums and suburban areas, to deal with heat-related health problems.
Such measures would be more practical and potentially less costly than cloud-seeding technology, he said. "The situation can be overcome if the government starts informing people about precautionary measures through text messages on mobile phones and running ads on radio and television," he added. He said summer heat is a predictable phenomenon and the government should improve its early warning systems to plan for it in the future.