Unclean drinking water causing deaths in Pakistan

RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - JANUARY 27: It is neither terrorism nor natural disasters but the unavailability of safe drinking water which leads to the highest number of deaths in Pakistan. According to the UN, consumption of contaminated water which leads to several waterborne diseases contributes to 40 percent deaths nationwide every year. According to figures from the Health Ministry and UNICEF, more than 50,000 children below the age of 10 die every year from waterborne diseases like cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis, and typhoid. Higher arsenic levels in water, experts say, also cause diabetes, skin, kidney, heart and black foot diseases, hypertension, birth defects and multiple types of cancer. The release of untreated industrial waste, unsafe sewage system, agriculture run-off and unplanned urbanization, has downgraded water quality over the years, especially in the big cities, depriving almost two-thirds of over 200 million Pakistanis of potable water. Federal Health Minister Saira Afzal Tarar said the government is taking steps to improve the situation. Interview of a Pakistani man whose son was also died after having dirrhoea problem. "My name is Pervaiz Assi. I am resident of Dhoke Akbar (a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi). The vital issue of our area is the unclean drinking water. My son has died after suffering from diarrhoea as we are forced to drink the dirty water. I am also having lliver problem after drinking this dirty water. I have made several appeals to the high authorities to solve our problem, but the government is not listening to us. If you put this water in a bottle it gives (filthy) smell. We have to use this (polluted) water in drinking, cooking, bathing etc... I have made an appeal the government of Pakistan to look into the matter to solve this problem to save the lives of the children and elderly people." (Footage by Muhammed Reza/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - JANUARY 27: It is neither terrorism nor natural disasters but the unavailability of safe drinking water which leads to the highest number of deaths in Pakistan. According to the UN, consumption of contaminated water which leads to several waterborne diseases contributes to 40 percent deaths nationwide every year. According to figures from the Health Ministry and UNICEF, more than 50,000 children below the age of 10 die every year from waterborne diseases like cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis, and typhoid. Higher arsenic levels in water, experts say, also cause diabetes, skin, kidney, heart and black foot diseases, hypertension, birth defects and multiple types of cancer. The release of untreated industrial waste, unsafe sewage system, agriculture run-off and unplanned urbanization, has downgraded water quality over the years, especially in the big cities, depriving almost two-thirds of over 200 million Pakistanis of potable water. Federal Health Minister Saira Afzal Tarar said the government is taking steps to improve the situation. Interview of a Pakistani man whose son was also died after having dirrhoea problem. "My name is Pervaiz Assi. I am resident of Dhoke Akbar (a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi). The vital issue of our area is the unclean drinking water. My son has died after suffering from diarrhoea as we are forced to drink the dirty water. I am also having lliver problem after drinking this dirty water. I have made several appeals to the high authorities to solve our problem, but the government is not listening to us. If you put this water in a bottle it gives (filthy) smell. We have to use this (polluted) water in drinking, cooking, bathing etc... I have made an appeal the government of Pakistan to look into the matter to solve this problem to save the lives of the children and elderly people." (Footage by Muhammed Reza/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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