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Rainwater and overflowed water from nullahs and drains flooded most of the main roads and streets in residential locations, a significant number of residential areas including urban slums and villages in peri-urban areas, that gravely disrupted the people’s lives. 2021 Islamabad flooding; From June to August 2022, flooding affected most of ...
Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, with a negative impact on their uses. [1]: 6 It is usually a result of human activities. Water bodies include lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers, reservoirs and groundwater. Water pollution results when contaminants mix with these water bodies. Contaminants can come from ...
According to a World Bank report, "Karachi's urban air pollution is among the most severe in the world and it engenders significant damages to human health and the economy". The inefficient use of energy, an increase in the number of vehicles used daily, an increase in unregulated industrial emissions and the burning of garbage and plastic have ...
[36] [37] These risks include for example too much water (flood), too little water (drought and water scarcity) or poor quality water. [36] People who live with a high level of water security always have access to "an acceptable quantity and quality of water for health, livelihoods and production". [ 37 ]
Event Disaster Location Date Affected Death Toll; Earthquake/Tsunami: Makran: 325 BC: 1935 Quetta earthquake: Earthquake: Quetta: May 31, 1935: 60,000 1945 Balochistan earthquake
In 2017, almost 22 million Americans drank from water systems that were in violation of public health standards. [64] Globally, over 2 billion people drink feces-contaminated water, which poses the greatest threat to drinking water safety. [65] Contaminated drinking water could transmit diseases like cholera, dysentery, typhoid, diarrhea and ...
A 2017 study found that 83% of tap water samples taken around the world contained plastic pollutants. [ 96 ] [ 97 ] This was the first study to focus on global drinking water pollution with plastics, [ 98 ] and showed that with a contamination rate of 94%, tap water in the United States was the most polluted, followed by Lebanon and India .
Infectious diseases (e.g. gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, and skin diseases) due to lack of clean drinking water and sanitation pose a serious new risk to flood victims. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] On 14 August, the first documented case of cholera emerged in the town of Mingora , striking fear into millions of stranded flood victims, who were already suffering ...