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ISLAMABAD:
The Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change was knowledgeable on Wednesday that the nation’s water sources have been depleting due to the local weather change, whereas the federal government deliberate to impose carbon tax on sure industrial sectors.
The committee met right here with its chairperson Sherry Rehman within the chair. Prime Minister’s Coordinator for Climate Change Romina Khursheed Alam, officers of the local weather change ministry and related departments attended the assembly.
The officers instructed the committee that Pakistan was the third nation on the earth to make an ‘adaptation plan’. They prompt {that a} carbon tax on a few of the industrial sectors would have many advantages. However, the chair famous that imposing carbon tax was a technical problem.
To a question from chair, Alam, the prime minister’s coordinator for local weather change, replied that discussions have been being held with the chambers of commerce and varied sectors.
The local weather change ministry officers mentioned that the water sources in Pakistan have been depleting quickly. “Water reservoirs and rivers are lowering within the nation. We need floodwater to be diverted into canals. In this regard, we’re engaged on tasks,” Alam instructed the committee.
During the assembly, CDA officers briefed the committee on the state of affairs of the Rawal Dam. They mentioned that 9 million gallons of sewage water entered the dam every single day, including that the issue of air pollution within the dam can be solved after the set up of a sewage therapy plant.
The chair noticed that the folks of Rawalpindi and Islamabad have been ingesting polluted water, by which even the fish couldn’t survive. She mentioned that the matter of the therapy plant can be taken up within the Senate session. “Rawal Dam is in dire want of cleansing,” she emphasised.
