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NA committee for depts’ coop to meet water, environment MDGs
By Technology Times at September 18, 2012 | 5:19 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Availability of adequate funds and increased investment is critical for achieving all Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Pakistan before 2015 deadline. A high-level meeting of the National Assembly’s special committee on MDGs pressed on need for promotion of watershed management, rainwater harvesting, building up more water reservoirs to meet more...
Water based vehicle
By Technology Times at September 18, 2012 | 4:44 pm | 0 Comment
By Rabia Ahmad ONE OF the engineering’s primary challenges lies in solving the world’s energy crisis. A major part of the energy solution lies in eliminating fossil fuels as transportation fuels. The idea of a car running on sun and water would have been viewed as science fiction as recently as 10 years ago. Dr. Ghulam Sarwar, one of the brilliant scientist more...
Water resources in Pak evaporating speedily
By Technology Times at September 2, 2012 | 5:48 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: With the country slowly slipping down the scarcity benchmark, it will be facing a severe water crisis in coming years, which will also harm the agriculture sector. According to available statistics, the water availability, which stood at 5,300 cubic metres per person per year in 1950, dropped to almost 1,000 cubic metres in 2011, touching the globally more...
India’s water hegemony ruining Pak economy
By Technology Times at August 24, 2012 | 5:27 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT ISB: Maintaining that “stoppage of water by India has a caused huge water shortage in Pakistan besides damaging its economy”, Chairman Pakistan’s Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Maulana Fazlur Rahman urged India “not to stop water of different rivers flowing down from Kashmir into Pakistani territory.” “If India strangles our economy by more...
Demo of water car
By Technology Times at August 24, 2012 | 5:01 pm | 1 Comments
I WOULD like to share with readers that way back in the early 1940s, just before the end of World War II, an experiment to run water-fuelled car was successfully held and went into operation in the former state of Hyderabad (Deccan), India. As a reaction to extreme scarcity and rationing of petrol, Mahboob Ali, a pioneering former director of wireless and broadcasting and more...
Water crisis looming over Pakistan
By Technology Times at August 13, 2012 | 2:08 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Water crisis is fast looming over Pakistan which has raised alarm regarding water storage mechanism. “Water will be a major limiting factor in Pakistan,” remarked Saleem Shaikh, Deputy Director at the Ministry of Climate Change in Islamabad, adding this critical situation has raised the alarm that water storage simply hasn't kept up with more...
Diminishing water availability!
By Technology Times at August 13, 2012 | 2:28 am | 0 Comment
URBAN POPULATION of Pakistan swelled by over 2.2 million people between 2011 and 2012, now constituting about 38 per cent of the country’s total population of over 180 million. The increased population growth rate as well the massive shift of population from rural to urban areas on one hand has triggered concerns, the rapidly diminishing per capital water availability more...
Water quality, management still a dilemma in Pakistan: Dr. Aslam
By Technology Times at August 6, 2012 | 11:11 pm | 0 Comment
By Mustafa Z Paras & Ata ul Haq Working as Chairman PCRWR, Dr. Aslam is extensively engaged in a number of projects of water quality in Pakistan. He got Ph.D degree from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. He is serving PCRWR for the last over 26 years while remaining on various senior positions. In recognition of his invaluable services, he was conferred the more...
Dow honours PakOasis for fresh water project
By Technology Times at July 23, 2012 | 3:21 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Dow Water & Process Solutions, a division of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), has recognized PakOasis for one year of operational excellence at its Nawabshah Ultrafiltration (UF) water treatment facility. The largest of its kind in Pakistan, the facility uses DOW ultrafiltration technology to provide 14 million imperial gallons of fresh, safe more...
Pakistani engineer invents water fuel kit for vehicles
By Technology Times at July 23, 2012 | 3:10 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: In a surprising development, Engineer Waqar Ahmed has come up with a new solution for a country like Pakistan to reduce reliance on oil import as he claimed to have invented water fuel kit for vehicles. Waqar appraised about his invention during a meeting with Federal Minister for Science and Technology Mir Changez khan Jamali here last week. On more...
Maintaining water quality!
By Technology Times at July 23, 2012 | 2:11 pm | 0 Comment
ACCORDING TO the established survey, Pakistan’s water situation is extremely precarious as water availability has plummeted from about 5,000 cubic meters per capita in the early 1950s to less than 1,500 cubic meters per capita today. Food and Agriculture Organisation has warned that the per capital water availability would be less than 1,000 in Pakistan by 2035. Close more...
Sewage water to irrigate vegetable crops
By Technology Times at July 17, 2012 | 11:52 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Farmers – particularly small landholders – have now opted to use sewage water to increase crop productivity as, according to them, this kind of water carries all the natural contents required to increase the per acre yield. Agriculturists contend that the use of effluent has increased crop yields by up to 25 per cent. Given such claims, most of more...
Engineer gives demo of water fuel vehicle
By Technology Times at July 10, 2012 | 1:53 am | 1 Comments
STAFF REPORT IBD: A practical demonstration of using water as a fuel to run the vehicles was recently held at the Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) which is working under Ministry of Science and Technology. The demonstration was given by Agha Waqar Ahmed Khan, a Khairpur-based Mechanical Engineer, who was invited by the PSF under its “Invention and Innovation more...
Health hazards of carbonated water
By Technology Times at July 10, 2012 | 12:07 am | 0 Comment
NOW A days soft drinks are very much on demand. People from all age groups like to have them. Specially children love to enjoy soft drinks. It’s a trend to serve soft drinks to guests, in birthday parties, weddings and several other ceremonies. Soft drinks have replaced milk which was traditionally used in past Soft drinks have been suspected of leading to lower more...
Rain water harvesting can mitigate water scarcity in Pakistan
By Technology Times at June 23, 2012 | 4:36 pm | 0 Comment
WATER IS a valuable gift from God which has been given prime importance in the Holy Quran. It is one of the three important things that every human is blessed with freely: grasses providing pasture for cattle, water, and fire without which existence of life on earth is impossible. In the Quran Allah says: "We sent down water from the sky in measure and lodged it in the more...
Climate change impacts on water resources management
By Technology Times at June 18, 2012 | 4:50 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_17070" align="alignleft" width="116" caption="Islam Ul Haq"][/caption] WATER IS the primary medium through which climate change impacts ecosystem and people. Managing water resources to ensure a secure supply to growing populations is already a major challenge in many areas of the Asia/Pacific region. Glaciers melt in the Himalayas is more...
Water resources allocation may down next fiscal year
By Technology Times at June 10, 2012 | 6:00 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Funds for developing the all-important water resources have shrunk to about 13 per cent of total development budget for 2012-13 and this comes at a time when the country is going to enter the ranks of water-scarce countries with a significant gap between demand and supply. According to statistics, over the past five years, allocation for water resources more...
PCRWR role for water quality lauded
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 12:19 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Minister of State for Science and Technology Rahila Shahadat Baloch has recently visited the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR). She paid a visit to the National Water Quality Laboratory and GIS Centre of the council. On the occasion, a detailed presentation was given by PCRWR Chairman Dr. Muhammad Aslam Tahir on research & more...
Man claims to produce power with water
By Technology Times at May 22, 2012 | 12:01 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: While Pakistan is having worst energy crisis, and worst ever power load-shedding, a 37-year-old mechanical engineer from Swat claims to have produced electricity with water. After 20 years of research, Rehan Aziz Farooqi, has invented a unique power generator that runs solely on water, and, wait for it, the design can be used to allow any engine that more...
Siemens installs water filtration plants for villages
By Technology Times at May 22, 2012 | 11:22 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Siemens Pakistan has installed five water filtration plants in villages affected by floods – two of them have been installed in Sujawal, one in Civil Hospital Sujawal and the other in Govt Boys High School Sujawal, while the rest have been installed at the villages constructed by Pak Navy for flood victims at Belo Goth M. Khan Bijoro and Village more...
Looming water scarcity due to changing weather patterns
By Technology Times at May 22, 2012 | 11:19 am | 0 Comment
By Muhammad Arifeen PAKISTAN IS fast shifting from a water-stressed to a water-scarce country. The UN Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Statistical Yearbook for 2011 states that changing weather patterns across the world have increased the occurrence and intensity of the earth’s natural hazards such as torrential rains, floods, droughts and cyclones; which more...
Lands can be made cultivable by controlling water logging
By Technology Times at April 14, 2012 | 2:50 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT BHV: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will soon initiate projects to improve soil quality in areas with saline and water-logged soils, FAO country representative Dr Kevin Gallagher said on Monday. “Most of these projects would be implemented in southern districts of the Punjab. Salinity and water scarcity are global issues and need to be tackled more...
Water issue places Pakistan in Red Zone list
By Technology Times at April 9, 2012 | 11:50 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT FBD: Water security has become a critical issue as Pakistan has been placed in the Red Zone list in the water availability index. “Although Pakistan is a food secure country, yet the water crisis might turn the fertile lands into barren if the issue is not addressed in time,” said University of Agriculture Faisalabad Vice-Chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan more...
Arab summit lauds PERN role
By Technology Times at April 9, 2012 | 11:49 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Owing to increased importance of getting acquaintance with ICT, the International Telecommunication Union Connect Arab summit has recently been held at Doha, Qatar, which was participated by 450 delegates including some top government officials from about 26 countries. On the occasion, it was stressed that in addition to attaining good technological more...
Kharif crops to face 10 per cent water shortage in April-Sept time
By Technology Times at April 9, 2012 | 11:39 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: The agriculture sector of the country will face an overall 20 per cent water shortage from April to June this year increasing the chances affecting the major Kharif crops like rice and cotton, an official in the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) has said. Similarly, experts in Sindh Agriculture Forum (SAF), predict that major crops including wheat, more...
