If an entire area can be considered unfortunate then the district of Bahawalnagar is that region. One of the ten bottom-most districts in terms of poverty and social indicators, its misfortune has diverse dimensions: water quality and quantity, agricultural, industrial, livestock, connectivity and marketing, etc.
Tucked in the remotest region of South and stretched along the Indian border, this thin line of semi-arid area has an overwhelming brackish aquifer. Being situated on the right bank of River Sutlej has not helped it with water. Even the sporadic sweet water layers created along canals through water seepage are so thin that small tube wells (only 25,000 in the entire district) start pumping out brackish water after a few hours of running.