KARACHI: Speakers at a media workshop held on Wednesday at a local hotel warned that growing population and continued discharge of industrial and domestic waste into the environment coupled with increased extraction of groundwater were worsening the freshwater crisis in Pakistan, urging the government to come up with water conservation strategies.
The event was organised under a World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) project titled International Labour and Environmental Standards (ILES) Application in Pakistan’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
The project is currently being implemented in Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad and Sialkot.
Explaining why the project is important, Dr Tahir Rasheed, WWF-P regional head, Sindh and Balochistan, cited a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) report which ranked Pakistan third among the list of countries facing serious water shortages.
