242 99PR rMKI3 I MN COUNCiL OF RESEARCH IN WATER RESOURCES Proceedings National Workshopon Quality ofDrinking Water March 07, 1998 Islamabad, Pakistan Compiled by Dr BashirA. Chandio Dr Muhammad Abdullah Jointly Organized by PAKISTAN COUNCIL OF RESEARCh INWATER RESOURCES AND CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF PAKISTAN Proceedings of the National Workshop on Quality of Drinking Water March 07, 1998 Islamabad, Pakistan Compiled by Dr. Bashir A. Chandio Dr. Muhammad Abdullah Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) Islamabad 1999 LIBRARY lAG P0 Box 93190, 2509 AD THE HAGUE TQI. +31 703068980 Frnc. +31 70 35 89964 BARCODE: J~jj~çy LO: © PCRWRILDIC 1999 3 Street 17, F-612, Islarnabad Pakistan ISBN 969-8469-O1-X PREFACE Water is the fountain of life and is indispensible for its continuity Though it is earth’s one of the most abundant substances but is rarely found in its pure form because being a universal solvent it is either a vehicle or storage of various pollutants The consequent scarcity of potable water has Lceated the real problems of human health and environmental sustainability Keeping in view the paramount importance of drinking water, the PCRWR and CSP have put their modest efforts to orgamze a one day “National Workshop on Quality of Drinking Water” The papers and subsequent discussions have covered a wide spectrum of drinking s~dterquality I feel immense pleasure to acknowledge the efforts of organizers to conduct this workshop very effectively. I am cognizant that all dimensions of the drmking water quality are not comprehensively discussed in this workshop, however, it gives me greater satisfaction to see that workshop proceedings are properly documented and published. I would put my efforts to bring these recommendation to tne notice of planners and decision maker so that future planning carries some flavor of this workshop recommendations Dr. Basbir A. Chandio Chairman Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) (i) TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE INAUGURAL SESSION Workshop Brief Dr Din Mohammad, Secretaiy, Workshop Organizing Committee 3 Welcome Address U Gen. (retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi, 5 Secretary, Ministry of Science & Technology Role of Industry in Safe Drinking Water Mr Khaiii-ur-Rehman, General Manager 6 Himalaya Mountain Valley Water (Pvt ) Limited Islamabad Key Note Address Dr. Ba.shir Ahmed Chandio, Chairman, PCRWR 7 Inaugural Address Syeda AbidaHussain, Federal Ministerfor Science & Technology 9 Vote of Thanks Prof. Roshan Ahmad, Chairperson, Workshop Organizing Committee 11 TECHNICAL PAPERS Drinking Water Quality and Standardization in Pakistan 14 Dr. Bashir A. Chandio, Dr. M. Abdullah and M. A. Tahir Environmental Pollution and Carcmogenesis 19 Dr. S. Riaz-ud-Din Water Borne Diseases 22 Dr. Khurshid Ahmed & Dr. Arhar Saeed Dii Drinlung Water Quality Guidelines Values Chemical and Physical Aspects 25 S. Shujah & M Jaffar Membranes and other Processes to Improve the Quality of Drrnkmg Water 29 MuhammadAshraf Chaudhry Separation and Speciation of Organo-Phosphorus Pesticides Based on 33 Hydrolysis Using Reverse Phase HPLC Jasmin Shah, M.Rasul Jan and Kahkeshan Saeed Drinking Water Quality Momtormg in the Rural Areas of Rawalpindi 35 M Aslam Tahir, Dr. Bashir A Chandzo, Dr M Abdullah & AbidRashid Synthetic Inorgamc Ion Exchangers: Efficient Scavengers for 40 Toxic Pollutants m Water Syed Moosa Hasany Water Chemistry, Quality Control by Electrochemical Methods 43 RiazAhmed Nitrate Pollution in Drinking Water and its Measurement 47 MuhammadMans/ia Chaudhry, Tariq M Naeem and Asmatullah Analysis of Potable Water in Dera Ghazi Khan 50 Rizwan Hussain and Abdul Mateen ABSTRACTS OF SELECTED PAPERS Clean and Safe Drinkmg Water for All 54 Muhammad Akram Chughtai Quality Control of Drmking Water 54 Mian Muhamnw.d Aslam Parameters of Water Quality 54 Dr lqbai H. Qureshi RECOMI~VEENIIATIONS 56 (iii) 4* INAUGURAL SESSION Workshop Brief Dr.Din Mohammad, Secretary, Workshop Organizing Committee Welcome Address Lt.Gen.(retd) Javed Ashraf Secretary, Ministry of Science & Technology Role of Industry in Safe Drinking Water Mr. Khalil-ur-Rehman, General Manager Himalaya Mountain Valley Water (Pvt.) Limited, Islamabad Key Note Address Dr. Bashir Ahmed Chandio Chairman, Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources Inaugural Address Syed Abida Hussain Federal Minister for Science & Technology Vote of Thanks Prof. Roshan Ahmad Chairperson, Workshop Organizing Committee I ~ -~~ WORKSHOP BRIEF Dr. Din Mohanunad, Secretary, Workshop Organizmg Committee Syeda Abida Hussain, Federal Minister for Science & Technology Lt Gen (retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi, Secretary, Ministry of Science & Technology Dr. Bashir Ahmed Chandio, Chairman, Pakistan Council of Research in Water resources Professor Roshan Ahmed, Chairperson, Workshop Organizing Committee Mr Khalil-ur-Rehman, General Manager, Himalaya Mountain Valley Water (Pvt) Limited Members of the Organizing Committee Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen’ Assaiam-o-Alaikum’ It gives me a great pleasure to well come you all To label the available facilities which could be to this occasion and present my brief report on this employed I approached to get quality analysis workshop To create scientific activities in collaboration In January / February 1994 we experienced with NGO’s such as the chemical society, PCRWR, spread of Hepatitis epidemic in parts of Islamabad EPA, universities and the industry for regular which was later traced to be linked to the use of intercomparison campaigns for analysis of drinking contaminated water. This may have happened due to water samples Such activity would lead to a statistically possible human error or improper certification of laboratories for quality analysis. planning and management of the water supply Apart from the inaugural and the concluding system of the area There may have been many such incidents frequently occurring un-noticed in our sessions the whole activity has been divided into three sessions technical session-I, commercial beloved country elsewhere session and technical session-Il In the techmcal In line with the recent trends locally bottled session-I four invited lectures based on different mineral water supplies are now available in the aspects by experienced and knowledgeable scientists market being respectable and clean industry and no and professionals such as Dr. I. H Qureshi, dearth of the raw material Yet one may have heard Scientist Emeritus PINSTECH, Dr. S Riazuddin some one’s whisper expressing his displeasure over Professor and Director, Centre of Excellence in the quality suspecting that some one might have Molecular Biology, Punjab University Lahore, bottled it from a source without proper treatment It Dr Khurshid Ahmed,KRL Hospital, Islamabad and has also come to our notice that a few foreign based Dr M Jaffar, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad agencies have expressed their disbelief on the will be presented This will be followed by quality of the locally manufactured bottled water commercial session where most of the invited papers Under such situation, keeping in view the fact belong to the industrial sector This has been done that our beloved land had been bestowed upon by so intentionally in order to record meaningful The Almighty Allah the best quality water participation of the industrial sector in such national resources in the world, the scientific community and scientific activity and I am pleased to inform represented by the CSP and PCRWR feeling it to be you that we have received enthusiastic response their National duty, joined hands to hold this frQm the industrial sector so much so that we faced workshop to achieve the following objectives difficulty in arranging the allotted time to the To create awareness amongst the masses for a speakers Keeping in view the importance of the quality water as a common responsibility occasion we have accommodated everybody However the time allotted has been decreased to To bring the scientific community, govt only ten minutes to each and I would request to all agencies, organization such as the CDA and the speakers to strictly follow the timing and give manufacturing industry on a common plateform maximum meaningful intormation to the audience considering it a National requirement to improve In third session we have included two invited papers upon the quality of drinking water and the rests are scientific papers which the To create further interaction between the scientists and engineers would like to present and working scientists, theoretically strong scientists are basically concerned with the process or the with academic and research responsibilities and the analytical techniques required for quality analysis in industry for collaborative R&D required to achieve one way or the other This will be followed by the the cherished goal concluding session which would include a brief 3 report on the workshop proceedings, (1) M/s Service Industries, Lahore; recommendations for the future and concluding (2) MIs Arco Intemational, Rawalpindi, and address by the Chairman concluding session Dr. A Q. Ansari Chairman PCSIR Laboratories (3) M/s So-Safe Water Purification Product, Islamabad Islamabad This occasion is bemg sponsored by three types (c) Suppliers of Scientific Equipment and allied of sponsors: products required for quality analysts of water. I (a) Bottled mineral water manufacturers and I would would like to mention the names as: like to mention their names as under: (1) M/s Faiz Enterprises, Islamabad; (1) M/s Himalaya Mountain Valley (Pvt.). (2) M/s We Brothers Scientific Works, Limited, Islamabad, and (2) M/s Natura, Natural Mineral water, (3) M/s H A Shah & Sons Islamabad. Islamabad; We have been rather conservative in choosing (3) M/s Sparklette Continental Corporation, the sponsors because of the reason that we only Limited, Islamabad, and wanted competent companies to be associated with (4) MIs Northern Bottles (Nt.) Limited, us at this first instance. I thank all for their Islamabad. cooperation and hope that this will be for our mutual benefits and service in the National interest. (b) Manufacturefs of the filtered systems and here I Thank you all would like to mention the following names ‘1 4 WELCOME ADDRESS Lt.