Environmental pollution and water issue in Pakistan

1. Environmental pollution and water issue in Pakistan Presentation by Muhammasd Jawad Shahid MBA 2nd semester

2. Introduction

3. Pollution? Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability disorder harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms .

4. Causes of pollution The pollution comes from two souses. • Natural source • Foreign source

5. Categories/types of pollution. Pollution is divided into following categories. • Air pollution • Water pollution • Soil pollution • Noise pollution • Light pollution • Visual pollution

6. Pollution problem in Pakistan • Air pollution • Water pollution • Land pollution • Noise pollution

7. Vehicles exhaust fumes that pollute the air.

8. Industries give out the harmful gases(Sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide)

9. Water pollution Causes of water pollution • Industrial water • Oil spill incident in sea • Leakage in pipe lines

10. Effect of water pollution • Marine life in danger • Respiratory diseases in people living near sea.

11. land pollution Causes of land pollution • No waste disposal system • Only 5% households have access to a municipal garbage collection system • People through garbage in street

12. Noise pollution What is noise pollution? Causes on noise pollution. • Road way noise • Industrial noise • Air craft noise

13. Effect of noise pollution. • The blood pressure can increase during exposure to the noise • Adverse effect on the human behavior (Stress).

16. Solution to the pollution problem in Pakistan • Here are a few solution problem in Pakistan Solution for air pollution. • Instead of using private car We should use public transport. • There should be a greenbelt constructed in big cities such as Karachi • We should unleaded petrol in our vehicles. • Most of the leading car manufacture should install the catalyst converter in their vehicles.

17. Solution for water pollution. • The factory waste should be filter fist and then disposed properly into sea or river. • Instead of using clean water we can use filtered industrial water for flushing toilets, washing the car and watering the plant. • The government should ask the citizens to proper clean the beach once in year. • There should be fine in people who throw their waste in river or sea. • The government should pass strict laws concerning this issue. • We should cooperate with one an other to save marine life.

18. Solution for land pollution • Instead of throwing rubbish away we can give some of it for recycle • We reuse polythene bags for caring things. • There should be land fill area where the rubbish can be disposed off. • The government should place the garbage canes and bins. • All the shop keeper should use the paper bags in stead of the polythene.

19. Water problem in Pakistan

20. Only 65% of population has access to safe drinking water (85 % urban and 55% rural) • 20000 rural settlements have no facilities at all Source is mostly ground water except in some big cities In saline g/water areas canal water is used for drinking • Limited availability inequity in water distribution and system losses have reached alarming proportions • Sanitation facilities available to 42 % of population(65% • urban and 30%rural)

22. Questions