One Day Seminar on Water Resources Depletion, Treatment and Recycling (WRDTR).
Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan.
16 Febuary, 2009
Pakistan has a long history of developing and managing water resources, infrastructure and has the largest contiguous irrigation system in the world. It is, however, nearly at the water scarity threshold of 1,000 cubic meters/person/year.
The per capita water availabilty in Pakistan decreasing at an alarming rate following 5 years of drought, and in 2005 was just above the scarity level and with an increasing surface water pollution problem.
The National Water Policy vision is for adequate water availabilty through proper conversation and development with water supplies of good quality and equaitably distributed.
The indiscriminative disposals of untreated domestic and industerial waste water into fresh water bodies have caused the water pollution.
Due to shortage of water, the system of supply is intermittent and the consumers are fetching water through pumping causing negative pressure. As a result infiltration of contaminated water course in the water supply.
Consumers are forced to implement expensive coping mechanisms, such as on-site storage, purchasing water from tankers or use of shallow wells and rivers.
The scenario in Pakistan warns that awareness and training programs be held on variuos methods to reduce water losses are leakages, harvest rain water, protect water resources from pollution, improve water efficiency both in agriculture and munciple sector, initiate treatment and reuse of both munciple and agriculture drainage effluent.
Considering the importance of water issues as highlighted above, we are organizing the one day seminar on "Water Resources Depletion, Treatment and Recycling" in collaboration with the British Council Karachi and Oxfam Islamabad.
A project funded through British Council titled "Capacity Building for Urban Water Management" has been launched in 2008 at the Mehran University of Engineering & Technology Jamshoro, National Centre of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry, Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam and University of Exeter (UK). The 3-years project aims at:
The one day interactive seminar is aimed at disseminating state-of-the art knowon how on:
The main objectives of the seminar is to provide a platform to the exports from all over the country including experts from U. K. to present their work and shared expertise with fellow academics researchers, stake holders, managers and policy holders.
Main focus of the event is also to disseminate three greywater treatment technology which have been developed at pilot scale in the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro, Sindh University Jamshoro and Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam respectively.
The Oxfam Pakistan hass been striving for the livelihood issues and would deliberate upon their activities by presentating the case study of their projects in Water Sector.
Researchers, scientists, engineers, planners in water sanitation and associated departments, consultants and professionals in NGOs engaged in water and projects.
Please complete the registration send to the Chief Organizer before February 10, 2009. We also aim to accommodation and assistance to number of researchers and academicians, particularly female participants, from education institutions in Pakistan, working water demandmanagement related projects.
This seminar is supported by the British Council and Oxfam and jointly organized by:
Prof. Dr. Abdul Khalique Ansari
Lead DelPHE Project Co-ordinator (MUET)
Prof. Dr. R. B. Mahar
DelPHE Project Technical Facilitator (MUET)
Dr. Prof. Muhammad Iqbal Bhanger
DelPHE Project Co-ordinator (NCEAC)
Prof. Dr. Hussain Bakhsh G. Bhutto
DelPHE Project Co-ordinator (SAUTJ)
Dr. Fayyaz A. Memon
DelPHE Project Co-ordinator (Univeristy of Exeter, UK)
Prof. Muneer A. Memon
DelPHE Project Member (MUET)
Dr. Najma Memon
DelPHE Project Member (NCEAC)
Dr. Khadija Qureshi
DelPHE Project Member (MUET)
Prof. R. B. Mahar
E-mail : rbm_mahar@yahoo.com
Phone : +92-22-2772254-60, Ext : 2502, 4402
Mobile : +92-334-2610651
Ashfaque Ahmed Pathan
Organizing Secretary
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department (MUET) Jamshoro.
Email : ashfaquepatha2000@yahoo.com
Mobile : +92-300-3036181