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The National Conservation Strategy Report recommends fourteen program areas for priority implementation: maintaining soils in croplands, increasing efficiency of irrigation, protecting watersheds, supporting forestry and plantations, restoring rangelands and improving livestock, protecting water bodies and sustaining fisheries, conserving ...
The key activities to conserve water are as follows: Any beneficial reduction in water loss, use and waste of resources. [3] Avoiding any damage to water quality. Improving water management practices that reduce the use or enhance the beneficial use of water. [4] [5] One of the strategies in water conservation is rainwater harvesting. [8]
Water supply service quality is often insufficient in Pakistan. One document criticizes the MDG's methodology for only taking into account coverage figures, without giving attention to adequate service quality. [10] Continuity of supply and water quality are two important elements of drinking water service quality.
In addition, increasing pollution and saltwater intrusion threaten the country's water resources. About 36% of the groundwater is classified as highly saline. [5] In urban areas, most water is supplied from groundwater except for the cities of Karachi, and a part of Islamabad, where mainly surface water is used. In most rural areas, groundwater ...
The Living Indus Initiative is a comprehensive environmental program launched by the Ministry of Climate Change in Pakistan, in collaboration with the United Nations. This initiative aims to protect, conserve, and restore the natural ecosystems within the Indus Basin, which is crucial for the livelihoods of 90% of Pakistan’s population.
Particulate matter, or fine dust is characterized by their micrometre size PM 10 to PM 2.5. The air in Karachi is rapidly polluted by automobile smoke, especially Rickshaws and Buses , industrial emissions, open burning of garbage, house fires, and other particles but the government and environment organizations seems non-serious to tackle the ...
Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water. These resources can be either freshwater from natural sources, or water produced artificially from other sources, such as from reclaimed water or desalinated water (). 97% of the water on Earth is salt water and only three percent is fresh ...
Outdated irrigation practices have led to inefficient water usage in Pakistan. 25% of water withdrawn for use in the agricultural sector is lost through leakages and line losses in the canals. Only a limited amount of the remaining water is actually absorbed, and used by the crops due to poor soil texture and unlevelled fields. [14]