A seminar was held by World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan on 22nd of august where the exports placed an emphasis on the need of suitable water consumption in the textile sector of the country. They also addressed the patterns for the consumption of the resources.
This seminar was a part of the international labor and environmental standards (ILSE) Application in Pakistan SEMs project. It was funded by the European Union and implemented by the WWF-Pakistan in collaboration with the ILO (International Labor Organization). This seminar was a part of the series of events for the World Water Week that is said to be observed on from 27th of August 2017 to 1st of September in the Stockholm Sweden.
The WWW, this year, will address the theme of “Water and Waste: reduce and reuse” from a holistic system perspective, addressing issues and challenged from all parts and countries of the world.
In this manner the WWF-Pakistan will be presenting an scientific research titled as “Sustainable management practices to the textile industry for growing economy.” The research will be presented by senior project officer of WWF- Mr Sohail Ali Naqvi. This paper highlights the analysis of implementation of the Multi Environment Agreement with the context to cost benefits and sustainable practices in the textile industry.
While speaking on the occasion the CEO of WWF-Pakistan Mr Hammad Naqi Khan said that there is a need to optimist the water cycle in local industries in order to ease the existing pressure on the water resources.“Business as usual is no longer an option since we need to understand that the water challenges we face today are intertwined and instead of being part of the problem we should be part of the solution,” he said.
He further added that; “With our current status of being declared a water-stressed country, our primary focus should be on the strategic development of the industrial sector, especially increasing the efficiency of our textile sector with small water footprints and high added value should be our primary objective.”
The key challenges focused on the World Water Week 2017 are regarding the two sustainable development goals including improvement of water quality by reducing pollution, dumping, minimizing and eliminating the release of hazardous chemicals and materials, splitting the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally.
