By Saleem Shaikh
July 24, 2012
Reuters News Agency
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Hotter
temperatures, shifting rainfall and growing population are reducing the amount
of available water in Islamabad. As dams dry up, people are drilling more
borehole wells and trying to find other answers.
WaterAid – UK’s
country manager in Pakistan, Abdul Hafeez, says normal practices such
as washing homes and cars each day, sending waste water flooding down
streets, must change. Moulding people’s attitudes towards adopting rainwater
harvesting systems and water conservation habits at their homes will be
important.
He said Pakistan’s
government should pass legislation outlawing wasteful use of water and
institute a national rainwater harvesting policy.
WaterAid -UK’s
Hafeez believes that having rainwater harvesting in each household in
Islamabad and other parts of the country should be made obligatory.
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