{"id":37677,"date":"2024-11-21T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T08:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=37677"},"modified":"2024-11-21T08:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T08:19:12","slug":"pakistan-implemented-water-quality-initiative-with-support-from-korean-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-implemented-water-quality-initiative-with-support-from-korean-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Implemented Water Quality Initiative with Support from Korean Gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37679\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-11-19-at-6.44.35-PM-e1732176913562.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" \/>COP29 Monitoring Desk<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5>BAKU\/ Azerbaijan :19 Nov 2024 &#8211; Coordinator to Prime Minister on Climate Change Romina Khurshid Alam said Climate change adversely affects water quality globally, exacerbating challenges of shrinking water availability, its contamination and affecting ecosystem health. Coping with the common water-related challenges requires collaboration and cooperation among countries.<\/h5>\n<h5>\u201cGlobal heating has increased temperatures of water bodies including lakes, rivers and oceans worldwide, reducing oxygen levels and threatening aquatic ecosystems. Warmer waters are also more prone to algal blooms, including toxic cyanobacteria, which harm aquatic life and contaminate drinking water sources,\u201d The PM\u2019s climate aide remarked while addressing an important event <em><strong>\u2018Clean Water and Climate Resilience: Transforming Pakistan\u2019s Water and Agricultural Landscape\u2019<\/strong><\/em> held here in Baku on the sidelines of CO29 Global Climate Summit on Tuesday at Pakistan Pavilion.<\/h5>\n<h5>This event is co-organised by the Ministry of Climate Change &amp; Environmental Coordination, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, <em><strong>Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)<\/strong><\/em> Pakistan Office and SEED Pakistan, a non-governmental organisation.<\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"5aO6tSiq2b\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-cop29-climate-finance-priorities-for-sustainable-development\/\">PAKISTAN @ COP29 &#8211; Climate Finance Priorities for Sustainable Development<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;PAKISTAN @ COP29 &#8211; Climate Finance Priorities for Sustainable Development&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-cop29-climate-finance-priorities-for-sustainable-development\/embed\/#?secret=8ej46ouQyT#?secret=5aO6tSiq2b\" data-secret=\"5aO6tSiq2b\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>\u201cToday, global community, particularly those living in global south are faced with rapidly deteriorating water quality but also its declining availability due to climate change-caused shifting weather patterns, depleting rainfalls, declining groundwater levels and debris-loaded floodwater runoff that turns the river water flows contaminated. Addressing these global-scale water quality challenges can be tackled only through global response,\u201d Romina Khurshid Alam emphasised.<\/h5>\n<h5>The PM\u2019s climate aide pointed out that <em><strong>tackling soaring levels of water quality is crucial to protect lives<\/strong> <\/em>of the people and reduce disease burden. Because, poor water quality, when consumed directly or through food source, only increase the prevalence of waterborne diseases, which are often amplified by extreme weather events such as floods and droughts.<\/h5>\n<h5>Heavier rainfall increases runoff, which can carry pollutants like pesticides, fertilizers, and industrial waste into freshwater sources. This contaminates drinking water supplies and promotes eutrophication in lakes and reservoirs. Besides, prolonged dry periods concentrate pollutants in shrinking water bodies, leading to higher salinity, reduced dilution of contaminants, and poor water quality, she highlighted.<\/h5>\n<h5>\u201cEnhancing water quality reduces health risks, especially for vulnerable populations. Because, contaminated water exacerbates waterborne diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, and typhoid, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations in developing regions,\u201d she highlighted during her address and hastened to add that warmer conditions accelerate the proliferation of harmful bacteria, viruses, and parasites, posing risks to human health, especially in untreated or poorly managed water systems.<\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"0uMJSPXD7Z\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-unveils-first-climate-finance-strategy-finance-minister-urges-innovative-climate-solutions-at-cop29\/\">Pakistan unveils first climate finance strategy &#8211; Finance Minister urges innovative climate solutions at COP29<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pakistan unveils first climate finance strategy &#8211; Finance Minister urges innovative climate solutions at COP29&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-unveils-first-climate-finance-strategy-finance-minister-urges-innovative-climate-solutions-at-cop29\/embed\/#?secret=y5BLNzIFyn#?secret=0uMJSPXD7Z\" data-secret=\"0uMJSPXD7Z\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Explaining about her government\u2019s initiatives to tackle the challenges of water contamination, She informed the participants that the climate change and environmental coordination ministry started a new $4.4 million project <em><strong>\u2018Enhancing Water Quality Monitoring System to achieve SDG 6 in Islamabad, Punjab and KP\u2019<\/strong><\/em> with the help of KOICA Pakistan to monitor drinking water quality in close collaboration with Punjab and KP provincial governments, PCRWR and Pak-EPA. This project will benefit over 62 million people in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab &amp; Islamabad, she added.<\/h5>\n<h5>The project includes significant upgrades to water-quality testing laboratories, encompassing the procurement and installation of advanced laboratory equipment, minor infrastructure enhancements to ensure a safe working environment, capacity-building initiatives for laboratory staff and the <em><strong>WASH Cell of the MoCC,<\/strong><\/em> the introduction of a Management Information System (MIS) for improved coordination, and the provision of 8 vehicles transformed into water-quality testing laboratories for the Government of KP and 1 vehicle for <em><strong>PCRWR.<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5>The PM\u2019s climate Romina Khurshid Alam remarked that acknowledging the fundamental right to clean and safe drinking water, the initial and vital step is monitoring its quality. Pakistan faces a significant challenge, with almost 44% of the population lacking access to safe drinking water.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cIn response, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) collaborated with UNOPS Pakistan is making all-out efforts to enhance water quality monitoring systems in Islamabad, Punjab, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on pilot basis to ensure the people of these areas have access to safe drinking water.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CMrcvyvgeB\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-october-2024\/\">Pakistan in the World \u2013 October 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pakistan in the World \u2013 October 2024&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-october-2024\/embed\/#?secret=A4nH6NahzL#?secret=CMrcvyvgeB\" data-secret=\"CMrcvyvgeB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COP29 Monitoring Desk BAKU\/ Azerbaijan :19 Nov 2024 &#8211; Coordinator to Prime Minister on Climate Change Romina Khurshid Alam said Climate change adversely affects water quality globally, exacerbating challenges of shrinking water availability, its contamination and affecting ecosystem health. Coping with the common water-related challenges requires collaboration and cooperation among countries. \u201cGlobal heating has increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5623],"tags":[109,111,525,4361,4401,143,251,4313,867,48,6243,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37681,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37677\/revisions\/37681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}