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Climate change has driven extreme weather conditions in Pakistan, which in turn have affected its water supply and sanitation services. To mitigate water scarcity, Pakistan must develop a wastewater treatment program that provides clean and readily-available water.
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has attained the capability to support over 300,000 disaster-affected people through its regional warehouses. Under a National Disaster Risk Reduction policy, the authority aims to strengthen disaster preparedness and response capabilities, improve early warning, and build capacities of disaster management.
'After 10 years, another earthquake on October 27, 2015 has shaken up the nation and made us ask ourselves just how prepared we really are. What lessons have been learnt and what needs to be done?' writes Dr Abdur Rehman Cheema of COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad, in an opinion piece on Daily Times...
Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs of Pakistan Syed Tariq Fatemi arrived in Sendai on Sunday 15 Marc to represent Pakistan to 3rd World United Nations Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, reports Daily Times. Kishida stated that Japan looked forward to sharing knowledge on Disaster Risk Reduction with Pakistan, which itself has suffered from natural disasters in the past....
'One of the major factors affecting livelihoods in these areas is inadequate water. This project will see the construction of community assets that will help improve livelihoods and sustainable food security', said Lola Castro, WFP Pakistan Representative and Country Director...
'Although climate change is occurring due to a larger share of development sins of the developed world, we happen to be at the paying end... Our main option is actually the only option and that is adaptation to prevent or mitigate the negative effects of rising temperature and resulting extreme events', states
'In the case of Pakistan, we need to think about disasters holistically. As a part of structural measures, the country needs to design and update seismic building codes and then ensure strict compliance on new and old buildings,' write Dr Ejaz Hussain and Dr Abdur Rehman Cheema...
Japan will provide a $3 billion support to developing countries in the field of disaster reduction over the next three years, said Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development...
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