Tag: Water

KARACHI - While countries around globe will be focusing on urban water management on World Water Day that is being observed today, Sindh's rural areas will still be reeling from the affects of floods of 2010 that washed away most water and sanitation systems. Ninety percent of the water supply schemes in nine districts of Sindh as well as sanitation facilities were completely washed away during the 2010 floods, disclosed the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) in a

Lahore - A walk was organised at the Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) on Monday in connection with the World Water Day. "Shortage of standard drinking water is a serious world problem and some LCWU societies are contributing to highlight the issue," LCWU Natural Sciences Dean Dr Kausar Jamal Cheema said. Environment Science Department Chairperson Dr Arifa Tahir was also present on the occasion.
The Lahore Environment Awareness Forum (LEAF) and the Society for

FAISALABAD - Punjab Governor Latif Khosa has underlined the need to adopt the modern irrigation system based on conservation to avoid water catastrophe in future. The governor was speaking as the chief guest at a seminar to mark the World Water Day held at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) under the aegis of Department of Agriculture and Technology and Water Management Research Centre of the varsity.
He said, "We will run into serious water crisis unless we replace

ISLAMABAD - The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) termed Pakistan as one of the most "water-stressed" countries in the world, likely to face an acute water shortage over the next five years because of a lack of water for irrigation, industry and domestic consumption.
Water supply in Pakistan fell from 5,000 cubic metres per capita to 1,000 cubic metres in 2010, and might further decrease to 800 cubic metres per capita by 2020, said the WB report. The Falkenmark

KARACHI - The residents of Achhro Thar (White Desert) are demanding the government to provide them with river water. Achhro Thar is believed to be the most backward area of Pakistan, and is often affected by droughts due to which the underground water level has dropped drastically.
During former president Pervez Musharraf's government, Thar Desert was provided with adequate river water with the help of pipes and vast networks of roads. However, no government since then has

KARACHI - The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) is about to start work on K-IV Water Supply Project with an estimated cost of Rs 20 billion to meet the increasing demand of water, KWSB Managing Director (MD) Misbahuddin Farid said in a meeting on Tuesday.
The meeting was also attended by Karachi District Coordination Officer (DCO) Muhammad Hussain Syed, Municipal Services Department Executive District Officer Masood Alam, officials of the City District Government Karachi

KARACHI - The results of Long Water Pump Test at Block-2 of Thar Coal Fields have revealed that the amount of ground water will not be sufficient to serve as a single source for long term use as the bottom aquifer is of limited extent.
On advice of international water consultants a month-long water pump test was conducted at Block-2 in the Thar Coal Fields to determine the quantity of ground water, quality of ground water and its supply variability with time, well efficiency, and

KARACHI - The technical proposal of the National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK) has been rejected as the firm has refused to carry out drilling work in the Thar coalfields under the water master plan, Coal and Energy Development Department Secretary Ejaz Ali Khan informed the Project Steering Committee on Thar Coal and Power Technical Assistance Project (TC&PTAP) in a recent meeting. The scheme titled 'Water Master Plan for Thar Coal Fields including Hydro geological, Water

LAHORE - The Punjab Finance Department has abolished eight posts of the clean drinking water project "in haste" without fulfilling the basic requirement of issuing a one-month prior notification, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The clean drinking water project is a federal government-funded project, which was handed over to the Local Government and Community Development Department of the Punjab government, but was stopped owing to downsizing drive of the government. But the funds

ISLAMABAD - The Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power was informed Monday that India was taking advantage of the flaws in the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) to build dams on the rivers allotted to Pakistan under the deal. The representatives of the Ministry of Water and Power told the committee that they were keeping an eye on the India's designs to build dams on the Chenab River while steps were under consideration to curtail the violations of the treaty.
The committee, which

KARACHI - An old lady tries to make fire with cow dung cakes to cook her breakfast, as a flock of crows and kites soars over the colony in search for food. The colony that is devoid of brick pavements and metallic roads has open water supply pipes, but water does not flow through them.
Many families sit outside their houses on customary charpais placed in zigzag streets, and established outside the houses on small platforms are shops that sell everything under the sun.
It is

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Foreign Ministry on Thursday welcomed the United States (US) Senate report on "Avoiding water wars in South and Central Asia", which acknowledged that the dams, India was building in Occupied Kashmir, would limit the water supply to Pakistan.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Tehmina Janjua said, "The report substantiates Pakistan's concerns at the building of dams by India on the western rivers in violation of the Indus Waters Treaty." The report released by US

ISLAMABAD - Only around 15 percent of Pakistan's urban population and 18 per cent of the rural population have access to safe drinking water and 1.44 pc of the GDP is spent annually on treatment of water-born diseases whereas the allocation for water treatment is less than 0.05 pc of the GDP, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Science and Technology was told on Friday.
Dr Aslam Tahir, Chairman of Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) told the

ISLAMABAD - Because of ill planning and coordination among the concerned official quarters, Clean Drinking Water for All (CDWA) Programme has failed to achieve its objectives of improving the quality of drinking water by building countrywide water treatment facilities and hence millions of rupees earmarked for the project were lost.
This project, started by the Ministry of Environment, was prepared at cost Rs 7871.74 million and was cleared by ECNEC in April 2006. Later the

LAHORE - Farmers Associates Pakistan (FAP) urged the government to rescue the mired agriculture sector through different steps including immediately beginning work on mega dams for overcoming the water shortage in the country. It also urged the Punjab government to help sugarcane growers in recovering their payments from millers.
In an emergency meeting of Board of Directors of Farmers Associates Pakistan (FAP) under the Chairmanship of FAP Vice Chairman Syed Hussain Jahania

LAHORE - WAPDA has failed to avail the opportunity to fill Mangla Dam despite prevalence of severe energy crisis in the country. In addition, it could not fulfill its commitment to settle people who had suffered as a result of Mangla Dam Raising Project.
This was disclosed by Azad Kashmir Minister for Information and Overseas Kashmiris Mahmood Riaz, while addressing members of the Lahore Economic Journalists Association (LEJA) at the Lahore Press Club on Wednesday. LPC Vice

HUNZA - Water level in Attabad Lake, at Gojal valley, has started receding at about 7 inches per hour after Frontier Works Organization (FWO)'s detonation of the blocked spillway of Hunza river. Water has gone down by around 3.5 feet since opening of the spillway on Sunday.
A scale has been fixed near the lake to measure water level. Lower parts of the Gojal valley were dammed because of blockade of the river, as a result of Attabad landslide disaster that killed 19 persons