{"id":68285,"date":"2020-07-22T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=68285"},"modified":"2020-07-21T18:29:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:29:23","slug":"wwf-pakistan-promoting-rainwater-harvesting-mitigate-monsoon-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wwf-pakistan-promoting-rainwater-harvesting-mitigate-monsoon-impacts.html","title":{"rendered":"WWF-Pakistan for promoting rainwater harvesting to mitigate monsoon impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The World Wildlife Fund-Pakistan (WWF-P) on Monday called for promotion of rainwater harvesting for mitigating monsoon impacts in the country, a news source reported. The organisation has highlighted that monsoon can cause infrastructure damage and health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wwf-p-expresses-interest-collaborate-epd-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WWF-P expresses interest to collaborate with EPD Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experts from the organisation said that the government needed to identify hotspots for storage and reuse of water in order to address the issue of flooding in rural and urban areas. They also emphasised the development of a response strategy and mapping of areas at risk of inundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-govt-urged-rain-emergency-centres-karachi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sindh govt urged to set up rain emergency centres in Karachi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WWF-P DG Hammad Naqi Khan stated that due to climate change, Pakistan could expect uneven rainfall and heat wave incidents. He added that the country required water management systems to prevent wastage of rainwater. To this effect, he urged on increased green belts in urban areas, fixing water storage tanks for small-scale rooftop rainwater harvesting, and more techniques. He also called for analysing the recent rainfall pattern in Karachi in view of the heavy rainfalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The World Wildlife Fund-Pakistan (WWF-P) on Monday called for promotion of rainwater harvesting for mitigating monsoon impacts in the country, a news source reported. The organisation has highlighted that monsoon can cause infrastructure damage and health issues. Read: WWF-P expresses interest to collaborate with EPD Punjab The experts from the organisation said that the government needed to identify hotspots for storage and reuse of water in order to address the issue of flooding in rural and urban areas. They also emphasised the development of a response strategy and mapping of areas at risk of inundation. Read: Sindh govt urged to set up rain emergency centres in Karachi WWF-P DG Hammad Naqi Khan stated that due to climate change, Pakistan could expect uneven rainfall and heat wave incidents. He added that the country required water management systems to prevent wastage of rainwater. To this effect, he urged on increased green belts in urban areas, fixing water storage tanks for small-scale rooftop rainwater harvesting, and more techniques. He also called for analysing the recent rainfall pattern in Karachi in view of the heavy rainfalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":68296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181,20385,15020],"tags":[35227],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"category-development-projects","9":"category-social-developments","10":"tag-details-on-wwf-pakistan-for-promoting-rainwater-harvesting-to-mitigate-monsoon-impacts","11":"cat-15181-id","12":"cat-20385-id","13":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WWF-Pakistan for promoting rainwater harvesting - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The World Wildlife Fund-Pakistan (WWF-P) on Monday called for promotion of rainwater harvesting for mitigating monsoon impacts in the country.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wwf-pakistan-promoting-rainwater-harvesting-mitigate-monsoon-impacts.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WWF-Pakistan for promoting rainwater harvesting - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The World Wildlife Fund-Pakistan (WWF-P) on Monday called for promotion of rainwater harvesting for mitigating monsoon impacts in the country.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wwf-pakistan-promoting-rainwater-harvesting-mitigate-monsoon-impacts.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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