ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR)Chairman Dr Muhammad Ashraf Wednesday said functioning of all water testinglaboratories working under his council will help ensure provision of cleandrinking water to the citizens.
Out of 25 water testing laboratories of PCRWR across the country,18laboratories were dysfunctional since last many years and over 200employees working there were shifted to the other departments.
Talking to APP, Dr Ashraf said that the Minister of Science and TechnologyChaudhry Fawad Hussain soon after assuming charge of his office decided tomake all the laboratories functional to provide facility of water qualitytesting which is direly needed. Earlier, only six labs of PCRWR inIslamabad, Peshawar, Lahore, Tandojam and Bahawalpur were functionalhowever the remaining labs were not operational since a long period.
These all labs have started working again with transfer of employees backto their offices, Dr Ashraf said and hoped these labs would help make theauthority self sufficient and help in revenue generation, he said. PCRWRhas also developed microbiological testing kits, low-cost arsenic detectiontesting kits and production of chlorination and disinfection tablets forensuring provision of clean drinking water, he said.
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The council is offering water quality testing and advisory services as acontinuous activity for the detection and source localization of pollutionand quantification of pollutants by using international standard methodsfor assessment of drinking water (potable, bottled and mineral water),irrigation water, industrial effluents, aquatic life and eco-system(fisheries etc.), filtration systems, recreational pollutants andenvironmental impacts.
