National Wash Scenario

Drinking Water Policy

M Jahangir
www. Water pakistan. com
Interactive Session
Discussion invited
Let us dissect the issues

Look At the scenario

Why Policy
The policy
What can we do
 5th water quality monitoring report
2005-06
• 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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 Health
Microbiological Contamination
• Cholera
• Hepatitis
• Diarrhea
• Typhoid

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 Health
Chemical 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.
• 9
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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 policy
Problem 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

2025
Even 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 be
That 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

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