Whereas, in June 2022, catastrophic monsoon rains began in Pakistan and intensified to Biblical proportions by August, leaving over one-third of the country under water and directly impacting the lives of 33,000,000 Pakistanis; Whereas despite flooding having subsided by 56 percent from the July-August peak, over 1,700 people have lost their lives, one-third of whom were children, 12,900 people were injured, 20,600,000 currently require humanitarian assistance, and 7,900,000 have been displaced; Whereas over 5,500,000 Pakistanis currently do not have access to clean drinking water, flood waters in many areas remain stagnant, and waterborne diseases remain a major concern as the floods left the country’s most economically vulnerable regions imperiled and struggling with a humanitarian catastrophe; Whereas over 7,000,000 women and children are in desperate need of nutrition and immediate lifesaving support, with food shortages causing pregnant women to be at heightened risk of having low birthweight babies, and 1 in 9 Pakistani children suffering from acute malnutrition; Whereas accelerated glacier melt, brought on by climate change, descending from the Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and Himalaya mountain ranges in northern Pakistan, is a major contributing factor to the Indus River’s unprecedented level of overflow and the enormous destruction that resulted; Whereas a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment by the Pakistani Ministry of Planning and Development estimated that the country’s economy has sustained a $15,200,000,000 loss; Whereas an estimated 2,300,000 homes were damaged or destroyed by the floods, many of which were swept away, demolished, or rendered uninhabitable, leaving the housing sector with financial losses estimated to be upwards of $5,600,000,000