WATER POLLUTION IN PAKISTAN

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Water Resources of the worldWater Resources of the world

Over the last century

• Human population has increased 3x

• Global water withdrawal has increased 7x

• Per capita water withdrawal has increased 4x

About one-sixth of the world’s people don't have easy access to safe water

Most water resources are owned by Government and are managed as publicly owned resources

Use of Water Resources in PakistanUse of Water Resources in Pakistan

Agriculture Agriculture

Industry Industry

Domestic Domestic

PAKISTAN

3Agriculture

Industry Public

Principal source of drinking water

GROUND WATER

Most of the rural areas and many major cities rely on it, although some cities such as Islamabad, Karachi, Hyderabad etc, get water from a number of other sources

GROUND WATER

Most of the rural areas and many major cities rely on it, although some cities such as Islamabad, Karachi, Hyderabad etc, get water from a number of other sources

About 80% of Punjab has fresh Groundwater

In Sindh, less than 30% of groundwater is fresh

In Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, increasing abstraction has resulted in wells now reaching into saline layers

Balochistan also has saline groundwaterBalochistan also has saline groundwater

Evaporation and transpiration

Evaporation

Stream

Infiltration

Water tableInfiltration

Unconfined aquifer

Confined aquifer

Well requiring a pump

Flowingartesian well

Runoff

Precipitation

ConfinedRecharge Area

Aquifer

Less permeable materialsuch as clay Confirming permeable rock layer

Ground Water cycleGround Water cycle

Problems Using Groundwater

Water Table LoweringWater Table Lowering

Depletion

SALTWATER INTRUSION is the movement of saline water into fresh water aquifersSALTWATER INTRUSION is the movement of saline water into fresh water aquifers

Reduced Stream Flow

The drying up of wells

Groundwater in the sub basin of Quetta would be exhausted by 2016

In Islamabad, the drop has been 50 feet between 1986 and 2001

In Lahore, the drop has been about 20 feet between 1993 and 2001.

Rural Water Supply inPakistanRural Water Supply inPakistan

Punjab has the best rural water supplyThe vast majority of the rural population has either piped water or water from a hand pump or motor pump.

Only 7 % of the rural population depends

on a dug well or a river, canal or stream.

Sindh is considerably worse: some 24% of the rural population depend on these sources

Situation in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa is worse still 46%

In Balochistan, 72% of the rural population depend on dug well or

from a river/canal/stream.

Human Water NeedsHuman Water Needs

•A person needs about 1 gallon water/day for hydration

In the Pakistan each person uses about 188 gallons/day

An additional 657 gallons/person/day are used for irrigation, industrial use

If world’s water supply were 100 liters, the usable supply would be about 0.5 tsp

US has highest per capita water withdrawal, followed by Canada, Australia, Russia, Japan

Water Condition in Pakistan

Pakistan has decreased from 5,000 in 1951 to 1000 cubic meter per Annum in 2010

2010 and 2025 have reached 173 million and 267 million respectively

The situation could get worse in areas where it is already below 1000m3 per

WATER AVAILABILITYWATER AVAILABILITY

Per Capita Water AvailabilityPer Capita Water Availability

Years Population (million)

Per Capita Availability (m3)

1951 34 5000

1961 46 3950

1971 65 2700

1981 84 2100

1991 115 1600

2000 148 1200

2013 207 850

2025 267 659

WATER AVAILABILITY IN PAKISTANWATER AVAILABILITY IN PAKISTANWATER AVAILABILITY IN PAKISTANWATER AVAILABILITY IN PAKISTAN

The water Shortage

The water shortage in the agriculture sector is another serious issue. 29% for the year 2010 and 33% for 2025.

Today groundwater contributes a merely 48% of the water available

The hike in the cost of electricity in 1990s and the development of new technologies have led to a considerable increase of diesel pumps whose numbers have grown 6 times over the last 30 years. (SOE 2005)

WATER QUALITY IN PAKISTANWATER QUALITY IN PAKISTAN

• Domestic and Industrial waste are discharged directly or indirectly in fresh water

• Only 3 waste treatment plants are present in Pakistan

• Only some 8% of urban wastewater is treated in municipal treatment plants.

• In Sindh 95% of shallow groundwater supplies are bacteriologically contaminated

• In Punjab, approximately 36% of the population is exposed Arsenic (10ppb)

Pakistan

PakistanPakistan• Rapid increase in

Population• Urbanization• Industrial Development

• Extended Drought

• Non development ofWater resources

Sources of water pollution

• Municipal Sewage• Industrial Water Pollution• Agriculture Water Pollution

Sources of water pollution

Municipal SewageMunicipal Sewage

It has been estimated that around 2,000 million gallons of sewage is being discharged to surface water bodies every day in Pakistan (Pak-SCEA 2006)

NCS states that 40% of death are related to water born diseases

Drinking Water Supply Lines Conditions in PakistanDrinking Water Supply Lines Conditions in Pakistan

Water is contaminated with• Lead• PCBs• Cyanides• Mercury• Hospital Waste• Pharma Waste

It is estimated that 50% Nationally (less than 20% in many rural areas), with only about 10% of collected sewage is

effectively treated

Industrial Water Pollution

Most industries in the country are located in or around major cities and are recognized as key sources of increasing pollution in natural streams, rivers, as well as the Arabian Sea to which the toxic effluents are discharged

Major Industrial Contributors to Water Pollution in Pakistan

Petrochemicals, Paper and pulp, Food processing, Sugar, Textile, Cement and fertilizer produce more than 80% of the total industrial effluents

Sugarcane Based IndustrySugarcane Based Industry

• A major cause ofindustrial water pollution due to discharge of wastewater containing high pollutantconcentrations

• Several hundred thousand tons of wastewater is generated per day

In Pakistan, only 1% of wastewater is treated by industries before being discharged directly into rivers and drains

TanneriesTanneries

It may take hundreds or even thousands of years for pollutants such as toxic metals from thetanneries to be flushed out of a contaminated aquifer

In K.P, 80,000 m3 of industrial effluentscontaining a very high level of pollutants are discharged every day into the river Kabul

In Karachi, Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (SITE) and Korangi Industrial and Trading Estate (KITE), two of the biggest industrial estates in Pakistan, there is no effluent treatment plant and the waste containing hazardous materials, heavy metals, oil etc. is discharged into rivers.

In Multan, a fertilizer factory discharges its waste untreated to cultivated land causing death of livestock and increasing health risk to humans. (WB-CWRAS Paper 8, 2005)

In Lahore, only 3 out of some 100 industries using hazardous chemicals treat their wastewater. Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) levels in water courses receiving these wastes are as high as 800mg/l and Mercury levels over 5 mg/l

In Faisalabad, one of the biggest industrial cities, there is little segregation of domestic and industrial wastes

Agriculture Water Pollution

According NWP, the irrigation network of Pakistan is the largest infrastructural approximately $ 300 billion of investment, 25% to the country's GDP. provides 90 % of food and fiber The remaining 10 % arid.

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animal manure erosion and dust from cultivation,pesticide drift and volatilization

This includes runoff and leachingFertilizers

The study revealed that in Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan and all drains were carrying saline and sodic waters due to high values of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and Residual Sodium Carbonate (RSC) and all of them also had very high values for Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and Biological Oxygen Demand(BOD).

The contribution of agricultural drainage to the overall contamination of the waterresources exists but is marginal compared to the industrial and domestic pollution.For example, in Sindh, the pollution of water due to irrigation is only 3.21% of the total Pollution (SOE 2005)

Source of contamination of Water PollutionSource of contamination of Water Pollution

Point sourcesPoint sources

Nonpoint sourcesNonpoint sources

Point and Non pointPoint and Non point

NONPOINT SOURCES

Urban streets

Suburban development

Wastewater treatment plant

Rural homes

Cropland

Factory

Animal feedlot

POINT SOURCES

• Inorganic Water Pollution• Organic Water Pollution

Classification of the Cause of Water Pollution

Inorganic PollutantsInorganic Pollutants

• Pre-production industrial raw material

• Heavy metals including acid mine drainage

Inorganic PollutantsInorganic Pollutants

• Chemical waste as industrial by-products

• Acidity due to industrial discharges like sulphur dioxide

Fertilizers in runoff from agriculture including nitrates and phosphatesFertilizers in runoff from agriculture including nitrates and phosphates

Phosphates and Nitrates

• Phosphates—mostly a result of sewage outflow and from Fertilizer, phosphate detergents

• Nitrates—sewage and fertilizers

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• The combustion of coal leads to the release of

mercury in the atmosphere. This enters the rivers,

lakes and groundwater. This is very hazardous

for pregnant women and infants

Arsenic ToxicityArsenic Toxicity

• Investigations revealed the presence of excessive arsenic in many cities of Punjab(Multan, Sheikhupura, Lahore, Kasur, Gujranwala & Bahawalpur) Sindh (Dadu & Khairpur) provinces. • The concentration of arsenic was found to be 50ppb five times higher that the prescribed limit of 10 ppb by WHO.

(PCRWR)

•Arsenic contamination is also becoming a serious problem. • In Sindh and the Punjab, approximately 36% of the population is exposed to a level of contamination higher than 10ppb • 16% is exposed to contamination of 50ppb. (SOE 2005)

Organic water pollution

• Bacteria from sewage or livestock operation

• Food processing waste,which can include oxygen demand substance like fat

Petroleum hydrocarbons like Diesel, Gasoline, Jet fuel, Motor oil, Detergents

Disinfection by products found in chemically Disinfected drinking water, such as chloroform

Pesticides

• Chlorinated hydrocarbonsDDT,—2-15 years• Organophosphates

—1-2weeks

some commonly used pesticides

• Carbamates ---days to weeks

Scale of Pesticide Use in Pakistan• Since 1950 to 1990: 50-fold increase in pesticide use• Most present pesticides are 10-100 x more toxic than those used in 1950’s • As there has been a four-fold increase in the use of Pesticide per year from 1990 to 2000

Each Year in the Pakistan

• About 45 thousands tones of pesticides are used• About 2500 commercial pesticide products• Use of pesticides is increasing at the rate of 25% per year

Case StudyCase Study

• In 107 samples of groundwater collected from across the country between 1988 and 2000

• 31 samples were found to have contamination of pesticides beyond FAO/WHO safety limits.

• A pilot project was undertaken in 1990-91 in Samundari, Faisalabad

• In an analysis of 10 groundwater samples drawn from a depth of 10-15 m

• Seven were contaminated with one or more pesticides (PCRWR, 1991)

Herbicides

• Triazines,(interfere with photosynthesis)• Phenoxy compounds, N compounds (create excess growth hormones)• Dalapon (kill soil microorganisms)

Some Common Pesticides and Their Effects

Pollution of LakesPollution of Lakes

Eutrophication Results

Ocean Pollution Ocean Pollution

Oil Spills PollutionSources of pollution: offshore wells, tankers, pipelines and storage tanks

EffectsEffects

• Death of organisms

• Loss of animal insulation

• Loss of animal buoyancy

HEALTH ISSUES RELATED TO WATER POLLUTION

• As per USAID report, an estimated 250,000 child deaths occur each year in Pakistan due to water-borne disease.

• The WHO reports that 25-30% of all hospital admissions are connected to water borne bacterial and parasitic conditions, with 60% of infant deaths caused by water infections.

• Small rural areas in Sindh do not receive adequately-treated water

• Of course, major cities, like Karachi, get contaminated water.

Pollutant Source/Cause Effect

Sewage that includes domestic wastes, hospital wastes, excreta, etc.

Sewerage of rural and urban areas.

Oxygen depletion Spread of diseases/ epidemics

Metals-Mercury Industrial wastes

Minamata disease - causes numbness of limbs, lips and tongue, blurred vision, deafness and mental derangement.

Lead Industrial wastes

Absorbed into blood and affects PBCs, liver, kidney, bone, brain and the peripheral nervous system. Lead poisoning can even lead to coma.

Cadmium Cadmium industries, Fertilizers

Deposited in organs like the kidney, pancreas, liver, intestinal mucosa, etc. Cadmium poisoning causes headache, vomiting, bronchial pneumonia, kidney necrosis, etc.

Arsenic Fertilizers

Arsenic poisoning causes renal failure and death, It can cause nerve disorder, kidney and liver disorders, muscular atrophy, etc.

Agrochemicals like DDT Pesticides

Accumulates in the bodies of fishes, birds, mammals including man. Adversely affects the nervous system, fertility. Causes thinning of egg shells in birds.

Wastes Mining and Smelting Industries Damage Kidney

Nitrates/Nitrogen Pesticides Blue Baby Syndrome

Trihalomethane(Trihalomethanes are a group of organic chemicals formed in water when chlorine reacts with natural organic matter (such as humic acids from decaying vegetation). Humic acids are present in all natural water used as sources of drinking water)

Decaying Plant Materialcause cancers of colon, rectum and bladder

PREVENTING AND REDUCING SURFACE WATER POLLUTION

Solutions:Solutions:

Nonpoint SourcesNonpoint Sources Point SourcesPoint Sources

Reduce runoff Reduce runoff

Buffer zone vegetation

Reduce soil erosion Reduce soil erosion

Pakistan’s Environmental Protection Act

National Drinking Water Policy

REDUCING NONPOINT SOURCE OF WATER POLLUTION

• As the runoff moves, it picks up and carries ways natural and human-made pollutants, finally depositing them into lakes, rivers, ground water etc

• Infiltration trenches, which are rock-filled trenches in which stormwater is stored in the voids of the stones, and then slowly filters back into groundwater;

• Downspout diversion programs (i.e., allowing domestic gutters to discharge to lawns or other unpaved areas instead of being connected to the sewers

• Permeable or porous pavements for roads and parking lots • Swales (i.e., grass depressions that catch runoff from

impermeable surfaces and slowly filter it back into groundwater)

• Wide filter or buffer strips of natural vegetation: grass or woodland, usually located between paved areas and the watercourse to slow flows and remove pollutants

• Infiltration basins that hold surface water, allowing it to infiltrate the soil gradually; and retention ponds or permanently wet ponds that retain surface runoff

• The Buffer Zone is that strip of vegetation located between developed land and a lake, stream

• Function as filters by reducing nitrogen from agricultural runoff by 68%

• Function to filter approx 80-85% phosphate

• Function to enhance infilteration of surface runoff

• Increased level of nitrogen and phosphorus, along with higher sediment loads, are the leading contributors to reduce water quality

• Soil Erosion can be controlled by using management practices like Conservation tillage, residue management, grassed waterways, terraces, conservation buffers, crop rotation and contour farming

REDUCTING POINT SOURCE WATER POLLUTION

• Pakistan Enviornmental Protection Act (PEPA) describes the functions of Enviornmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• PEPA advises EPA to “establish standards for discharge and emission of ambient water, coordinate enviornmental policies and programmes, nationally and internationally, designate laboratories for conducting tests and analysis for monitoring, measurement, examination, investigation, research, inspection and audits to prevent and control pollution

• It provides a framework for addressing the key issues and challenges facing Pakistan in the provision of safe drinking water to the people

• Its targets include To provide safe drinking water to 93% of the population in 2015 To provide at least one hand pump for every 250 persons To establish water treatment plants in all urban areas by the year 2015 To ensure water quality standards

WATER TREATMENT

Physical and biological treatmentPhysical and biological treatmentFig. 22-16 p. 511

Uses physical and chemical processesUses physical and chemical processes

Removes nitrate and phosphateRemoves nitrate and phosphate

ExpensiveExpensive

Not widely usedNot widely used

• Measure Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD)• Chemical Analysis• Indicator Species

• Dissolved Oxygen exist in very low concentrations

• If dissolved oxygen concentrations drop below 5ppm, fish will be unable to live for very long

• All clean water species such as trout or salmon will die well above this level and even low oxygen fish such as catfish and carp will be at risk below 5ppm

• Conductivity• Dissolved Oxygen• Nitrate• Phosphate• Pesticides

• Conductivity is linked directly to the total dissolved solids (T.D.S)

• High quality deionized water has a conductivity of about 5.5 µS/m

• Typical drinking water in the range of 5-50mS/m

• Seawater has conductivity about 5S/m

• It is the relative measure of the amount of oxygen dissolved in water

• In freshwater, under atmospheric pressure at 20C, O2 saturation is 9.1mg/L

• In freshwater close to land, nitrate can reach high levels that can cause death of fish

• Levels over 30ppm of nitrate can inhibit growth, impair the immune system in aquatic species

• Phosphate availability may govern the rate of growth of organisms

• Which result in Eutrophication and the collapse of populations of some organisms at the expense of others

• Pesticides surface runoff into rivers and streams can be highly lethal to aquatic life

• Pesticides kill zooplankton, the main source of food for young fish

• Herbicides kill off plants on which fish depend for their habitat

• Water pollution can be measured without using expensive equipment by simply counting the number of animals living in a stream

• If, all of a sudden, all the fish leave a stream then it might be a sign that there is some pollution in water

• Mayfly are a very good indicator of water quality. They can only survive in the cleanest conditions

• If a site has population of “sewage worms” or tubificids, this suggests that water quality has been degraded by input of sewage

SOLUTION OF WATER POLLUTION

Solutions

Water Pollution

•Prevent groundwater contamination

•Greatly reduce nonpoint runoff

•Reuse treated wastewater for irrigation

•Find substitutes for toxic pollutants

•Work with nature to treat sewage

•Practice four R's of resource use (refuse,

reduce, recycle, reuse)

•Reduce resource waste

•Reduce Soil Erosion

QuestionsQuestions

We thanks to all those teachers who encourage us but Our sincere thanks to: Mam RAZIA for there guidance, Mam SAIMA GUL, who gave a lot of time for correction without them this was difficult task for us

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