The Sindh Agriculture University (SAU), Tandojam observed the world water day 2008 by holding a moot in the Dr AM Sheikh Auditorium. The Vice Chancellor (VC), SAU Tandojam, Professor Dr Bashir Ahmed Sheikh presided over the event.
The Chairman, Department of Irrigation and Drainage, SAU Tandojam, Dr Hussain Bux Bhutto, Chairman Department of Farm Power and Structure, Dr Ahmed Ibupoto and Director Quality Enhancement cell SAU Riasat Ali Kubar presented papers on present sanitation scenario in Pakistan with core challenging issues. Their presentation focused on sanitation with a global overview with special reference to the Sindh province.
Shaikh, while addressing the moot further said that improving the access and quality of basic services like education, health, population welfare, clean drinking water and sanitation and women's empowerment were the challenges to be met by improving sanitation facilities in our South Asian region.
Over billion of people, he said, live without civic facilities and 600 children around the world die every day from diarrhoea caused by unhygienic sanitation. "About one million people, mostly children suffer from intestinal diseases and nutritional deficiencies", he said and stressed the need of developing a gigantic capacity building programme besides an awareness drive through print and electronic media.
Earlier, the Dean, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Dr Muhammad Saleh Soomro said in his welcome address that the SAU had been celebrating this international event since last four years and hoped to do it in future also.
Soomro said that disposal of untreated industrial and municipal wastewater has become a big environmental issue in Pakistan. Underground water, particularly in the Sindh is brackish or saline and not suitable for domestic use, he said and suggested meeting the MDGs successfully.
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