Pakistan cities lack safe consuming water, reveals govt facts

Islamabad [Pakistan] August 10 (ANI): many of the trendy cities in Pakistan don't have protected consuming water for residents, in keeping with facts introduced by the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf executive at country wide assembly.

in accordance with dawn, the records offered through Shibli Faraz, federal Minister for Science and know-how on the ground of the condominium according to a query requested by means of opposition chief shows that out of the 29 cities where underground water was established through the Pakistan Council of research of Water components (PCRWR), there are 20 cities the place greater than 50 per cent water obtained from numerous sources turned into discovered to be unsafe.The PCRWR has declared 100 per cent underground water in three cities -- Mirpurkhas and Shaheed Benazirabad (Nawabshah) in Sindh and Gilgit -- as hazardous for consuming.It further suggests that the underground water received from nine sources every in Sialkot and Gujrat is a hundred per cent protected for drinking aim.In July, Parliamentary Secretary countrywide fitness services Dr Nausheen Hamid has observed that Pakistan's per capita water availability has declined by using four hundred per cent from 5,600 cubic me tres in 1947 to around 1,038 cubic metres in 2021."here's a matter of great concern," dawn quoted Hamid as saying at a webinar on "Water on the roll: enhancing entry to water in Pakistan."Noting that Pakistan was the fifth most populous country in the world, she said water shortage was a "very severe danger" for you to worsen by 2025, leaving very confined water to be used.She additionally highlighted that insufficient give of water additional aggravated food security in the country.specialists have previous warned that a famine-like circumstance can also come up in Pakistan due to the scarcity of water across the nation if the problem is not resolved timely, Geo information said. As per the report, water scarcity within the nation has set alarm bells ringing after rivers have dried up due to low rainfall.Water experts warn that if new water reservoirs don't seem to be created and water wastage is not stopped, Pakistan will face a famine-like situation.within the month of March, a W ashington-based mostly magazine, the overseas fiscal Fund (IMF) placed Pakistan at the third position in the record of nations dealing with acute water shortage. (ANI)