Recommendation for

improving situation in

pakistan
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New water supply sources should be identified and regularly

monitored for safe supply of the drinking water.
Water supply schemes at Tehsil level needs to be introduced.
There is a potential for investors for bottled drinking water in
major cities like Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, etc;
where major industrial units operate and contaminate the water
resources.
New treatment technology can be implemented for better
water treatment. Alum is conventionally used and considered to
be obsolete.
Water supply must ensure that the supply of water to the
consumers is of safe quality particularly with respect to
bacterial contamination. A very effective and economical way to
decontaminate bacterially affected water is ozonation. For this,
the civic bodies and concerned agencies should be made to
install ozonators on tube wells supplying drinking water to
citizens;
The departments responsible for water supply in urban areas
in particular should replace age-old leaking pipes in their water
supply systems to reduce bacterial contamination.
It should be mandatory for the agencies responsible to
regularly monitor quality of water being supplied to the
consumers through analysis done at their own laboratories or

other accredited laboratories of repute; All the Tehsil Municipal

Administrations should keep the record of regular monitoring.
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Regular monitoring of all water resources and water points at
the national level should be ensured to help identify problem
areas, causes of contamination, and design a framework of
corrective plans;
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The National Drinking Water Quality Standards, promulgated
by Pakistan Standards Quality Control Authority should be
enforced immediately and made applicable to both private and
public bodies and entrepreneurs in the Water Sector;
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Most of the industries in the country are indiscriminately
discharging harmful toxic elements into water bodies. The
Environmental Protection Agency should become more active
and strictly enforce laws and regulations preventing industrial
entrepreneurs from discharging their effluents directly into open
water bodies and groundwater;
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Sub-standard chemicals containing impurities should not be
used in the treatment plants
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Alternate sources of water should be identified in areas where
the quality of source of existing water supply is questionable.
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Low cost household level water treatment technologies with
low technical input to use them should be developed using
indigenous material and expertise particularly for controlling
and treating water with biological, arsenic, and fluoride
contamination.
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No new water supply scheme should be approved unless
detailed investigations of water quality, quantity, possible
sources of local contamination, and its sustainability have been
carried out;
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For effective awareness, educational institutions & mosques
including mass media should be used for creating awareness
about the importance of water quality among the users;
The provision of good quality water in Pakistan is a challenge due
to a number of factors affecting the quality of water e.g., pollution,
lack of efficient water supply system and awareness of localities

etc. so there is a potential for private investors to establish clean

and safe drinking water facility with high efficiency water
treatment technology. This will reduce the rate of water borne
diseases and will also improve the quality of life.