Water treatment: Need for bio-remediation plants

ISLAMABAD: Director General National Agriculture Research Council (NARC), Dr Azeem Khan stressed the need for installing bio-remediation plants for treatment of waste water to make it useful for fruit and vegetable farming. He said that bio-remediation of waste water treatment model has been implemented at more than 80 locations in the country to make waste water useful for farming. He said under the climate change scenario and reduced per capita availability of fresh water, this model will help to have additional clean water equal to 40 Rawal Dams and also fetch clean vegetables from urban areas. He appreciated the role of COMCEC coordination office for facilitating the project and conducting study visits to Turkey, Dubai and Afghanistan. COMCEC-OIC Head of Department International Project Fateh Kaya said with the help of bio-remediation, water pollution could be decreased.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 11^th,  2014.

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