Monday, January 16, 2012

70 million people from two districts of Sindh drinking canal water

Pakistan Christian Post

About 70 million population of Larkana and Dadu districts in the far flung areas drinking untreated Rice Canal, Dadu Canal and Warrah canal irrigation water as well using for drinking of animals and human beings. A harmful constant extremely dangerous due to urban sewerage pours directly into the all canals.

There is a high risk of water borne diseases and of water borne deceases contaminated water due to an environment of sub-soil contamination passing through Science and Engineering College, Schools and dispensaries at Airport road via Mashori pump station and after making polluted the agricultural land around at Larkana damaged its nature surrounding.

In Larkana untreated sewerage water goes into the Rice Canal and Dadu Canal directly, thereby polluting irrigation system and using of such polluted water, which is dangerous for the people of area among the lives of peoples are asset.

It is quite remarkable that the huge cities of Pakistan are facing an overall shortage of fresh water and potable water, but those cities have been already precious and wide range of opportunities of sweet water, they must protect a precious gift of God otherwise they may lose at any stage.

After billions of expenditures on sewerage scheme in Larkana around, there is no sewerage way out and all the water treatment land occupied by the influentials in Larkana and even the Journalists’ colony for a long.

It is pertinent to be mentioned here that for these purposes to drain out seepage or other means, SCARP Wapda charging millions of rupees of electricity and other expenditures including employee salaries every month as well yearly budget, but the pumps around Larkana have been removed and no electricity poles and transformers of LA 30, LA 20, LA 19 and others, all are made functionless as water cannot enter into 2 R sub-drain, but the SCARP and Municipal corporation performance is zero observed after a survey.

According to reports, Municipal and its concerned departments have been failed to take minimize the steps required for the primary treatment of industrial and contaminated effluent/sewage systems in the suburbs of urban areas in Larkana and other parts, which eventually resulting thousands people suffering from gastro/abdominal diseases.

For a long there is no value of a common man even the high expenditure of salaries and different projects of the use of huge budget to providing sweet water all were in doldrums, because all the new schemes during the Nazims were totally failed and no one millions of scheme properly working in Larkana and other parts of district sources told.

For the welfare of people, several times raised questions about their ultimate destiny and hazardous/various diseases spreads and failures of the project but all in vain, while they do not pay any heed to the people’s health and ecology of a human is a greater importance.

The river water of Rice Cannal, Dadu Cannal and Warrah canal is also not properly fit for drinking, fishing and bathing purposes, due to the fecal-coliform bacteria are always found very high, which is due to the disposal of large quantity of untreated municipal waste into the Rice Canal and Dadu Cannal.

The Bakrani pumps drain out untreated sewage of Larkana 2-R sub-drain south system made with mud and uncovered by the SCARP department that ultimately drain into Rice Canal at Mashori pump station.

This 2-R sub-drain while passing parallel to the Bakrani road that called an Air Port Road of Larkana through the lands of different Khatedars, have been damaged due to high seepage, submerged them with sewerage water, where aquatic plants have been grown indicating the submerging water around the Larkana, the nature having high nitrogen and phosphors contents and caused great nuisance, so there is menace of spread of water borne diseases in the area.

The Airport road (Bakrani road) of Larkana via agricultural lands to Mashori pump have been dangerously affected both the side due to the sewerage water due to continue seepage of sewerage water into the land around Larkana.

Several projects are in doldrums due to the seepage around Larkana and further millions of expenditures carried out for; resulting submerged about hundreds of acres of land around Larkana by the sewerage water.

The people of Larkana have demanded the higher authorities to look into the matter and resolved their issues

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