The importance of safe drinking water and sanitation facilities has gained global and national recognition in the last decade, generating both political momentum and opportunity for addressing this fundamental aspect of human development.
Overcoming this crisis of water and sanitation through a concerted local and national response would act as a catalyst in public health, education, environmental betterment and poverty reduction by tapping into human potential that would have been lost due to waterborne diseases.
These human costs and economic waste is associated with the water and sanitation deficit.
Surface and ground water pollution is a major environmental concern posing a serious threat to human development.
The water and sanitation problem is above all a problem of the poor.
A majority of people in Pakistan in rural areas lack access to clean water and basic sanitation.
This is indicative of inadequate social welfare policies and requires proactive public actions.
In Sindh, the overall state of water supply, sanitation and hygiene is below satisfactory level.
Water supply is irregular and the institutional capacity of municipalities and line departments to manage and maintain the systems is steadily declining.
For example, the standards for drinking water are much higher than most other types of water use.