Press For Peace Deeply Concerns over Water Issues in Pakistan,Says Director Environment Press For Peace on World Water Week

Press For Peace, UK, 17 August 2009 –Director Environment Press For Peace Well Comes Water Week. Global leaders and policy makers are gathering in Sweden this week to discuss water-related challenges as World Water Week convenes in Stockholm.

From 16 – 22 August, experts in all fields will be provided with an opportunity to examine the impact of water deficits and climate change on poverty, health, gender equality and the environment.Improved access to water and sanitation can have a widespread positive impact, improving health, child education, and poverty, and reducing conflict -- and important gains have been made over the past 20 years. But as the world's population grows and the competition for clean water intensifies, these goals are now threatening to drift farther away. "Every day approximately 4,500 children die before their fifth birthday due to unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene," says the United Nations Children's Fund. "Access to safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, and improved hygiene is crucial for infants and children to get the best possible start in life."

The number of people without access to clean water is expected to rise as water becomes more scarce due to the effects of pollution, urbanization, and climate change, warns Aftab Alam Director Environment Press For Peace.Higher levels of pollution from urbanization and agriculture will reduce the amount of clean water available, and the effects of climate change could alter rainfall patterns, causing severe droughts and floods.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that the number of people living without access to clean water will rise to 1.8 billion by 2025."Safe water and good sanitation are essential to poverty reduction and good health," explains Nigel Ede, an IFRC staff member in Indonesia. "But when you compare international funding, remarkably little is spent on clean water and sanitation."

In united nation's report, it is warned that environmental increase in temperature will cause the melting of glaciers. That will raise the issue of people migration and shortage of water. In report the most victim countries are Pakistan, India and Bangladesh where glaciers are melting rapidly and these countries are facing the increase in problem of water shortage day by day.According to report water shortage will impose a war from strong country to its neighbor. Whose result will be much terrible as both Pakistan and India are nuclear Powers and both have the capability of long range ballistic missile technology.

Press For Peace urged both Pakistan and India to sttle down their water issues at their priority basis.