Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum, and All Karachi Industrial Alliance, and former provincial minister Mian Zahid Hussain on Monday said wastage of water continues unabated which can make the country a desert.
\nAll the rivers should be saved from dying otherwise the country will become a desert in which there will be no agriculture and the industry will also collapse.
\nMian Zahid Hussain said that Pakistan ranks 80th out of 122 countries in terms of quality of drinking water and people of most parts of the country are forced to drink contaminated water.
\nTalking to the business community, the veteran business leader said that now the Ravi River, the most important river for Punjab, has been included in the list of the three most polluted rivers in the world in a study.
\nThe study was conducted by a UK university in which 258 rivers located in 104 countries were categorised.
\nIncreasing pollution in Ravi has increased the risks to the people and the economy which must be noted as numerous pharmaceutical and other companies are dumping waste in this river while human and agricultural waste and toxic chemicals are also being dumped in this river.
\nThe water of the Ravi River falls into the Indus River and this tributary is adding poison to it which is a great threat to the people and agriculture. This situation is not limited to Ravi but the condition of other rivers, streams, springs and lakes is also continuously deteriorating as attention has not been paid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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