The Vice Chancellor University of Sindh Mazharul Haq Siddiqui has said that environmental pollution is global problem with far-reaching consequences and which not only poses a serious threat to the environment and the ecosystem in general but to our health as well.
He was inaugurating 2-day workshop on 'Environmental Electrochemistry' organised by the National Center of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry, University of Sindh in collaboration with Higher Education Commission Pakistan (HEC) here on Monday.
A large number chemistry scientists from universities of Pakistan as well as a scholars Professor Dr Jiri Barek from Czech Republic (Prague) attended the workshop. The Vice Chancellor said that increasing human activities not only are cause of much of the environmental pollution around us but they also compound the problems.
It is extremely important that the scientists come up with alternative solutions to improve our environment and to devise strategies that will harm the environmental ecosystem to the minimal if at all without halting progress. The Vice Chancellor said that Pakistan today faces sever environmental pollution, particularly air and water, which are usually caused by such factors as increasing human pollution, industrial processes and agrochemical.
He said that the application of electrochemical techniques to remedy this problem is a viable and much needed solution due to their affordable cost and simplicity as compared to other techniques.
He further said that it is surprising that this technique to reduce environmental pollution has not received the attention. He hoped that the this research will yield promising results which then need to be widely publicised in order to generate its practical application.
The Vice Chancellor appreciated efforts of the National Center of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry for organising such important workshop. Dr Jiri Barek who is the head of Unesco laboratory at Charles at Prague while speaking on the occasion has said that the electrochemistry technique will helpful to monitor the environmental problems.
He said that electrochemistry techniques would also be helpful to develop medicines for the environmental affected diseases including cancer disease. He said that time has come that the scholars and scientists should work on the electrochemistry as the environmental disease affecting life on the earth at globe level.
He said that the electrochemistry would also be helpful to check the environmental affects in the water and other human use items. Dr Bhanger invited the scientists of the country and abroad to come up with proposals and benefit from the laboratories of the national center for collaborative research work for the humanity.
He appealed the present government to sustain the research programs initiated by the HEC in different universities of Pakistan and added that these projects ultimate will be beneficial to the people of the country.
He also highlighted objectives of the workshop and said that a large number scientists from different universities including Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, Multan, Quetta and others parts are attending the workshop. The Dean Faculty of Natural Sciences Dr G. M Seehar, Dr Sirajuddin, Dr Amber Solangi and other scholars also expressed their views.