| .The committee, formed by the Senate’s standing committee on climate change and environmental coordination to investigate pollution and sewage issues at Rawal Dam, met at Parliament Lodges here with convenor Senator Shahzaib Durrani in the chair.
The other participants included Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency Director General Dr Farzana Altaf, and officials of the climate change ministry and Capital Development Authority. During the meeting, the Pak-EPA chief said that water pollution was raising the chemical oxygen demand, the amount of dissolved oxygen needed to oxidise chemical organic pollutants like oil or petroleum. |
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