While browsing youtube I came across this very thought provoking documentary on depleting water resources of our cities. Even though the documentary talks about Karachi in specific, the problem of potable water and conservation is equally valid for any other city and town of Pakistan. According to current estimate, Pakistan is world’s 6th most populous country taking over Russia for that spot in 2006. With all this increasing population, lack of development of potable water resources, WATER is set to become the most precious commodity in coming years. It will truly become what in literature, people have been calling ‘aab-e-hayaat’.
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The central issue with water, not mentioned in this post, was that global warming is rapidly shrinking the glaciers which supply water to all of South Asia’s river systems. Scientists have become alarmed at the very rapid retreat of glaciers in the Himalayas and have concluded that this could eventually lead to the drying up of all major river systems in the Indian Subcontinent (including the Indus in Pakistan). Nobody is sure about how long it will take for the glaciers to disappear because we are not certain about the world’s rate of warming, but it has happening now at a stunning rate and we could see the very worst scenarios of an uninhabitable and entirely desiccated subcontinent within our own lifetimes.
@Deeda–i-Beena,
there are few words in urdu
Bachat - Paani ki Bachat (Bachat-e-aab )
Kiffayat - Panni ki kiffayat ( kiffayat-e-aab)
Paani ka zi’an = wasting of water zi’an-e-aab
Zaya’a - waste
if I remember more, will inform you
Rafay Kashmiri
First of all, I agree with shahrukh, raise the number of comments we can read without clicking! My finger gets so tired! Na ji na…just kidding. But it would be nice to see more at a glance in the event we want to comment on what several others have posted.
Secondly, water conservation should be a world-wide concern and I think even those of us that “KNOW” this are guilty of being wasteful of a commodity which “SEEMS” to be endless. For starters, we should all take better care of our water sources and gov’ts should take better care in regulating companies which dump pollutants which contaminate our water supplies.
Again, educating people to respect the enviornment is essential. Water Waste and Water Contamination. In what other country have you ever seen so much trash literally flooding sidewalks, pedestrian paths, and streets? How much of it actually ends up in rivers? If everyone starts getting fined for littering…people will start getting the idea and cease this filthy lazy bad habit.
@Ahmad,
if you share what you’re doing, maybe other people will join in and help ease the problem which afflicts us all.
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I’m writing this comment from a usability perspective.
I really don’t like the way your comments show on a posts. I’m not talking about the quality of comments ppl leave but your wordpress plugin for comments is not working for me.
Lets say you have 50 comments on single post so when I click on post it shows 5 comments max and rest, I need to click and click to read.
I want to request you to raise the bar from 5 comments to 15 comments on single post page.
Now, the order in which comments appear is ridiculous.
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Owais bhai, I know you can write very thoughtful and impressive posts but the way comments plugins work on ATP is not effective.
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I am dismayed that the important subject (in this case water) CONSERVATION has been as usual turned into water CONVERSATION.
The other day visiting the home of a dear friend I noticed several dripping Taps, running Toilet Bowls and and his cook letting the Tap run while he attended to other chores.
When I pointed the WASTE to my friend, his response was “Don’t I pay my water bill?”
That is where rests the problem of Waste and Conservation.
Eversince, I have tried to find one word that would translate Conservation in Urdu but failed. Could some one please help me?
Yaar, Ahmad Bhai, aap nay tou kamal he karr diya!
Bolnay bhi nahiN daitey, aur batatey bhi nahiN ho kay karna kiya hai!
Yaar, burra mat mann-na, laikin iss say tou bolnay waley he achay haiN :-)
@Hussain:
i am doing something, i am NOT just talking. but i don’t want to share those here.