World Water Day walk

Published March 22, 2005

KARACHI, March 21: Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) is holding an awareness walk in connection with the World Water Day, today.

Like other people across the globe, the Karachiites would also be observing the water day on March 22. This year’s theme of the day, which was established by the United Nations Organization in 1993, is “water for life, water for all”.

According to an estimate about 22,000 people, half of them children die of disea-

ses borne by polluted water every year.

While, the lack of sanitation and clean water are the leading causes of deaths in the world, cases of non-availability of potable water or its sale on higher rates through tankers and death of people due to contaminated water are also reported even from urban cities of the country frequently.

A SEPA communication said that in today’s context water was the most critical natural resource on the Earth because of inadequate development, competing demands, wastage and degradation due to pollutants. The water day was celebrated to focus attention of the people on the importance, need and urgency of preserving the quality and augmenting the quality of water available in all places, the SEPA added.

This year SEPA will be holding an awarness walk, with the collaboration of Women Care Foundation at 10.30am at Shahrah-i-Iran, near the two swords intersection, Clifton. Adviser to Chief Minister on Environment Mohammad Noman Saigol will especially join the walk.

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