‘Only 53% to get safe drinking water till 2030’

Islamabad: Only 53 per cent of people would be able to get safe drinking water till 2030 if the pace of improvement of water resources remained same lacking far behind the set goal of reaching 100 per cent population under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG).

The pace of improvement should be three-times more than the present one which required sustainable investment in infrastructure and human resources, said a report of Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR).

The report titled Water Quality Status of Major Cities of Pakistan 2015-16, issued recently revealed that most of the samples 57 per cent monitored were found microbiologically contaminated.

The other contaminations included arsenic six per cent, turbidity eight per cent, chloride 15 per cent, nitrate six percent TDS 11 per cent, hardness six per cent and iron 10 per cent.