SC orders water companies to pay tax for extracting groundwater
The Supreme Court here on Friday ordered mineral water and beverage companies to pay tax for extracting groundwater for commercial purpose.
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WB recommends Pak local-scale management of groundwater resources
According to a recent report titled ‘Pakistan: Getting More from Water’, published by the bank said that the capacity of provincial water resources management departments should be strengthened for groundwater management and conjunctive planning.
Arsenic in Pakistan groundwater ‘alarmingly high’: study
LAHORE: Levels of arsenic in the groundwater of eastern Pakistan are "alarmingly high" and pose a significant health hazard to tens of millions of people who drink the water, researchers said on Wednesday.
The study in the journal Science Advances is the first to create a comprehensive map of arsenic in the groundwater across Pakistan, and follows earlier, smaller studies that showed high arsenic levels in some places.
Groundwater samples were taken from nearly 1,200 sites throughout the country, and researchers used a…
Earth’s groundwater being drained at rapid rate: study
WASHINGTON: Human activity is leading to the rapid draining of about one third of the planet's largest underground water reserves and it is unclear how much fluid remains in them, two new studies have found.