National Wash Scenario
Drinking Water Policy
M Jahangir
www. Water pakistan. com
Interactive SessionDiscussion invited
Let us dissect the issues
Look At the scenarioWhy PolicyThe policy
What can we do
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5th water quality monitoring report2005-06
• Total Samples 357 Pakistan
• Safe 45 13 %
• Unsafe 312 87 %
• Bacteriology 68%
• Arsenic 24%
• Nitrate 13%
• Fluoride 05%
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Drinking Water Quality Range, Bacterial contamination
2002-2006
• Islamabad 40-74 %
• Lahore 37-63%
• Multan 31-87%
• Rawalpindi 53-87%
• Sargodha 92-100%
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Water Sanitation & Hygiene
• Have to be tackled together
• To achieve the target of reducing disease and death .
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Development & WATSAN
• Health
• Poverty
• Education
• Family Fabric
• Forth coming youth
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HealthMicrobiological Contamination
• Cholera
• Hepatitis
• Diarrhea
• Typhoid
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HealthChemical Contamination
• Arsenicosis As
• Bone and dental Floursis Fluoride
• Blue baby syndrome Nitrate
• Goiter Iodine deficiency
• And several others
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Water Testing
• National water quality testing program
• National drinking water standards are available, PSQCA
• Lab testing is not easily accessible , sample collection and payment
• About 37 agrochemicals cannot be tested from our own standards, Costly.
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Policy
• Guiding principals for those who want to improve the situation
• Should be making use of existing infrastructure
• Not asking for the moon Should be practical• Phased application of immediate
relief and long term.
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Why policyProblem needs to be addressed
comprehensively
• The issue of unsafe water, has many dimensions
• Dumping of untreated sewerage water in fresh water. Canals rivers
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Problem needs to be addressed comprehensively
• Use of sewerage water as irrigation water for vegetables
• Dumping of untreated industrial waste in fresh water (NEQS not observed)
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The Policy
• The process of making a national drinking water policy, started some 5 years ago.
• The start of filtration plants was planned to provide immediate relief .
• Corroded pipelines and close layering of drinking and sewer lines
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A Typical Water Point in Sind
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Filtration Plant in Islamabad
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A Filtration Plant , committee Chowk. RWP
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Sewer drains in the middle of RWP
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The Policy
• Is A wish list
83 * Will be
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Will be
• Who
• When
• How
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Preamble
• Access to safe drinking water is basic human right
• Responsibility of state to ensure adequate quantity of safe drinking water to entire population at an affordable cost
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Preamble
• Adequate ?
• Safe ?
•Affordable Cost ?
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3.Goal and Objectives
1. Provide access to safe drinking water to The entire population of Pakistan by
2025Even Those born today will have to
suffer disease and death for 16 Years
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Policy Guidelines
5.1 (V)
All public Intermittent water distribution will be upgraded phase wise… to
Continuous water supply mode
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Dream
• Total water supply will be available, 24 hours daily.
• How it will be done
• Who will be doing it
• Will it be just turn of a switch on some fine morning
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Implementation Plan
• Enough time and consultations have taken place
• Let us put our heads together to search answers to who, how and when of the
83 will beThat will be Implementation Plan
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Several stake holders need to get closer
• Ministry of special initiatives (MOI), Filtration Plants
• MoST ,PCRWR• MoST , PCSIR, PSQCA• Ministry of Health, HAS• Local Government• Pak-EPA• Ministry o Environment • WASA• PHED
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New
• Directorate of water and sanitation within
The ministry of environment
Establish a centre of excellence in water studies for indigenous and viable technology of water and waste water treatment
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Need to
• Consolidate these actors and focus on coordinated service delivery
• Rational design of Filtration Plants
• Operation and Maintenance of FP
• Clean water Tanks public and domestic
• Capacity building of operators
• National Dehalmenthation program
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Cont
• Rehabilitation of existing water supply
• Use of Chlorine, Ozone and UV lamps for microbiological contamination
• Treat domestic waste water and Industrial waste water before use, preferably recharge ground water.
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Cont
• Phase out Plastic
• Advocate use of soap in mosques place of wuzoo ,schools and Hospitals
• Take universities into watsan loop
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Plant Trees
• Every Pakistani plants a fruit tree and takes care of it.
• This gives us 172.6 million Fruit Trees in 2009
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Ministry of Water Sanitation & Hygiene
• Special initiatives (MOI), Filtration Plants• MoST ,PCRWR• MoST , PCSIR, PSQCA• Ministry of Health, HAS• Local Government• Pak-EPA• WASA• PHED and the new directorate in MOE