Awareness-raising about water conservation stressed

PESHAWAR: The speakers at a function stressed the need for launching an awareness-raising campaign at the educational institutions to convince the young generation of the urgency to conserve water to overcome the looming crisis.
“Rivers and underground water resources give the feeling that we can consume water for centuries if handled carefully,” he pointed out.
Talking about the dams situation, Dr Muhammad Amjad Sabir said 25 various sites had been identified for construction of dams, asserting that Pakistan could build from 500 to 600 small dams.
He said the media should give preference to public needs instead of politics and arrange programmes in the light of the very fact.
The speaker said we would face no international hurdles if we constructed dams on the rivers which flow through Pakistan.
Dr Muhammad Amjad Sabir stressed the need for awareness-raising among the young generation on the issue and said we would have to sensitise the students at schools and other educational institutional institutions about conserving water by putting it to a judicious use to meet our needs.
Hamdard Foundation Pakistan President Sadia Rashid urged the participants to launch the struggle for conserving water from own homes and families.
“We should inculcate in our children the habit of saving water by avoiding its unnecessary use,” she stressed.
Shoora-e-Hamdard Speaker Dr Salahuddin said the next elected government should take as a priority the issue of the dwindling water resources.
The talks were followed by a question-answer session.

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