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Wastewater treatment based on bio-remedia�on through

hybrid-constructed wetland and phyto-remedia�on with

integrated farming system to ensure sustainability.

No use of mechanical or chemical means to reclaim the

wastewater. Natural and cheaper means to manage used

water for recycling and agricultural use.

An approach to u�lize exis�ng resources for environment

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Funded by “Sardar Memorial Eco-Solutions Trust (SMET)”The Social Corporate Responsibility Wing of “NBS”

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NBS is a part of the Bio-Technology Park of QAU and helped QAU in establishing a wastewater treatment system through bio-remedia�on process in a hybrid constructed wetland. The reclaimed water will be used in the Bio-Resource Center comprising 30-40 acres of QAU land to display various innova�ve income genera�ng technologies which would be integrated with liquid and solid waste sanita�on. QAU and NBS has signed an MoU, which joins the two organiza�on to conduct further research and development in sanita�on area and help the society to deal with sanita�on problems. Quaid-i-Azam University is recognized as top university in Pakistan and ranked at 69th among best universi�es. Ini�ally departments and hostels wastewater was le� running into the natural water way without or inadequate treatment and this stream was ending down into Rawal Lake pollu�ng the Lake, which is one of the major source of surface fresh water for two million consumers of Rawalpindi and Cantonment areas mainly used for drinking purpose. According to WASA Rawalpindi total coliform bacteria were found to be 11000 per 100 mL of water which is enormously above the permissible limit of 150 per 100 mL in Rawal Lake, total coliforms is one of the indicators of wastewater pollu�on. This had been a source of li�ga�on between QAU and WASA Rawalpindi. A�er the Supreme Court verdict of September 2010 it was made obligatory for QAU to discharge its waste water a�er treatment according to Na�onal Environmental Quality Standards (NEQSs). Capital Development Authority was approached by QAU and paid to provide treatment plant but this system was inefficient and obsolete to produce the desired results.

In January 2012 alumni of QAU (Dr. Yousaf Riaz and Dr. Asif Riaz) running a company NBS Inc., came with the bio- remediaon technology to treat the wastewater of the five hostels applying indigenous resources by constructed wetland and successfully installed the wastewater treatment system. Now this wetland has been established and QAU wastewater is being treated for its use in bio-resource center and all parameters are under NEQS. NBS has also agreed to establish a bio-resource center and cooperate in treatment of the en�re QAU waste water. The wetland and the bio-resource center project cost Rs. 4.5 million was funded by Sardar Memorial Eco-solu�ons Trust (SMET) the social corporate responsibility wing of the Nano Bio-solu�ons Inc.

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“Not a single drop of the recycled water will go to waste, as the same will be used for fruits, vegetables and medicinal herbs. This

means making the university green and profitable,” he said, adding that on the comple�on of the project he would invite the Capital Development Authority (CDA) chairman to see as to how much interest he shows in making streams passing through the

territory under his jurisdic�on neat and clean.

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Dr. Masoom Yasinzai, appointed three years back as vice-chancellor, says he has brought the university back from the brink; now it can be safely said it can retain its top-ranking status in Pakistan for next two decades. The secret lies in promo�ng inter-disciplinary approach, interac�ve teaching method and linking the research-oriented university with development sector. Professor Yasinzai, who was born in a suburb of Que�a in 1958 did his master’s in Bio-Organic Chemistry, received his Ph. D from the University of Hull, UK and Post-Doctorate from Perugia Medical School, Italy is the first academician from Balochistan to run the office of the vice chancellor of the pres�gious ins�tu�on in Islamabad. “I have upgraded departments into schools so as to use interdisciplinary approach” referring to School of Poli�cs and Interna�onal Rela�ons and School of Management Sciences. During the last three years he has inducted 100 Ph. Ds — all of them have degrees from foreign universi�es. Addi�onally, he has encouraged interac�ve teaching method instead of tradi�onal pedagogy. “When the first batch of my School of Management Sciences will pass out, I am confident it will make a lot difference in the market where the graduates of LUMS, NUST and IBA now stand tall,” he says. Though the QAU has quota system, they have to enter into a tough compe��on to qualify for admissions. Dr. Masoom says besides interac�ve teaching, the facul�es of

students are ve�ed through regular workshops, deba�ng contests and state-of-the-art libraries and research facili�es. Dr. Masoom said nutri�ous food was being supplied at hostels along with playgrounds and all modern facili�es like banks, post-office, café. In 2011, the university awarded scholarship worth 4.1 million to 2318 students on merit or need base. “When I joined the university, it was on the verge of collapse due to the fact that there was no strategic planning. I took into confidence the heads of the department and deans and held workshops to have one. The difference is visible from the research publica�ons that have almost doubled now,” he says. Dr. Masoom noted that the problem which Pakistan society is confron�ng with these days is all due to the fact that the country is not producing competent professional in subjects like poli�cs, foreign policy, sociology, anthropology. “We need to produce social scien�sts to put the country on the path of peace and stability,” he said.He said despite the fact that he was a hardcore natural scien�st, but he had given top priority to Social Sciences and the proof lies in conversion of IR department into School of Poli�cal Science and Interna�onal Rela�ons. On linking research with socio-economic upli� of the country Dr. Masoom men�oned a model project in the university, started two years earlier, which will recycle and clean the wastewater from hostels and residen�al colony of the university. With the comple�on of the seven-pond project, that is using indigenously available material and aqua�c

plants for removing hazardous metals and toxic material from wastewater, it will be used as a model to clean streams of the federal capital falling into the Rawal Lake. “Not a single drop of the recycled water will go to waste, as the same will be used for fruits, vegetables and medicinal herbs. This means making the university green and profitable,” he said, adding that on the comple�on of the project he

would invite the Capital Development Authority (CDA) chairman to see as to how much interest he shows in making streams passing through the territory under his jurisdic�on neat and clean.

Printed in “Weekly Pulse” Friday, Feb 22, 2013

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The wetland project near football ground will be aesthe�cally beau�ful, save Rawal Lake from pollu�on and help the university improve its hor�culture, Botanic Garden and Biotech Park, said Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) Vice Chancellor Dr. Masoom Yasinzai.

He was speaking at the MoU signing ceremony of wetland project with Nano-Bio Solu�ons, a firm set up by former students of the QAU. The project will be set up between football ground and Hostel-6.

The vice-chancellor appreciated old students of the QAU for always remembering their alma mater for helping it out in difficult areas. He said that the project, a dona�on, would also help the university in solving its problem regarding release of sewage into Rawal Lake.

Yousuf Riaz, a former QAU student, now handling Nano-Bio Solu�ons, said that the NBS is collabora�ng with QAU on Biological Solu�ons for Life to socio-economically develop Pakistan through research, which goes a long way in fulfilling corporate social responsibility for cost effec�ve innova�ve solu�ons. It will help in establishing a resource centre for the QAU Bio-Technology Park in which Dr. Ish�aq Ahmad Qadri, a celebrated scien�st and former student of Biological Sciences, QAU, is playing a leading role as an HEC scholar. The Rs4.5 million project may take one or two years but it will help in integrated farming also by recycling sewage.

The VC said that the QAU has not less than three loca�ons from where polluted water is flowing into the Rawal Lake. Riaz said that the NBS would consult another alumni and German organisa�ons for help in trea�ng water from all water outlets of the QAU. The VC also performed the groundbreaking ceremony at the site.

Printed in Daily “The News” Thursday, January 12, 2012 Rasheed KhalidFrom Print Edi�on

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-6-87087-QAU-wetland-project-to-protect-Rawal-Lake

http://weeklypulse.org/details.aspx?contentID=3315&storylist=13

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