A severe food crisis is being confronted by the residents of the Hunza district due to shortage of fuel for boats.Goods laden trucks and trailers cannot cross Chanar Bag bridge due to which fuel cannot be delivered to boats consequently the boats and ships cannot move. Passengers on both side of the lake are waiting for means of crossing a 15km-long and 60 metre-deep lake that was formed after a landslide in Hunza district.Hunza river is one of the main tributaries feeding the lake whose water level is rising furiously by two feet every day. An outburst in the lake would throw up a large flood wave that could travel downstream as far as Tarbela Dam, it will endanger the downstream population and can cause substantive damage to infrastructure and livelihood all the way down to the Tarbela dam.
