Water pollution and occupational health hazards caused by the marble industries in district Mardan, Pakistan

Noreen, Uzma; Ahmed, Zahoor; Khalid, Aliya; Serafino, Alessandra Di; Habiba, Ume; Ali, Farzand; Hussain, Mukhtiar

doi:10.1016/j.eti.2019.100470

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“…Based on the literature review of various major studies regarding drivers of climate change and sources that cause climate change, the authors identified energy [15][16][17][18], transport [19][20][21], urban and town planning and development [22][23][24][25], industry [26][27][28][29], and agriculture [30][31][32] as the most relevant sectors. Similarly, based on the previous important studies, the climate change policy objective sub-criteria are also identified and listed below in Table 1.…”

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Assessing and Prioritizing the Climate Change Policy Objectives for Sustainable Development in Pakistan

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The world is facing the observable and direct impacts of climate change in the shape of extreme weather events, irregular precipitation, glacial melt, sea-level rise, an asymmetric average temperature trends, higher oceanic temperatures, damage to natural ecosystems, and biodiversity. In 2015, collective wisdom stirred the global community to agree upon two unprecedented milestones in recent human history—the Paris agreement and sustainable development goals (SDGs). The twin global agreements set a platform for collective efforts to secure socio-economic and climatic sustainability. Pakistan also joined the board to put forth policy interventions for the mitigation and adaption of climate change risks to maintain symmetry between the environmental quality and economic development. The government of Pakistan (GOP) formulated the National Climate Change Policy (NCCP (2012)) and passed the Pakistan Climate Change Act (PCCA (2017)) to provide an impetus for the implementation of the NCCP. Yet, an appropriate assessment and prioritization of the objectives of the NCCP are indispensable for productive and effective policies to achieve the targets. This study serves this purpose by prioritizing the climate change policy objectives (CCPOs) based on symmetric principles, i.e., energy, transport, urban and town planning, industry, and agriculture as criteria, with 17 sub-criteria in total. The fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (AHP) results show that the energy sector is the most pivotal while implementing the NCCP. Energy production is the most critical area that needs mitigation policy intervention for shifting the energy mix of the economy from high-carbon to low-carbon energy. The fuzzy AHP analysis further revealed the railway, population and urbanization, air pollution, crop growing practices and techniques as the most important related to transport, urban planning, industry, and agriculture sub-criteria, respectively. The fuzzy VIseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) analysis showed the ranking of the CCPOs from high to low through the integration of policies, institutional capacity building, water security, natural resource management, natural disaster management, environmental financial structure development, and social sector development. The findings of the present research would be helpful for experts and policymakers to re-examine the NCCP and put forth action plans to achieve sustainable climate and SDGs.

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“…Water Pollution (CCPOSC42) Industrial plants cause water pollution. Water treatment plants need to be constructed to ensure water quality [26,27]. Climate change policy must imperatively consider the water pollution sourced from the industry.…”

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“…The presence of waste have negative effect on water quality, so that monitoring of water quality must be carried out sustainably by using various pollution parameters (Kapelewska et al, 2019). The water that contaminated like toxic metals, coliforms as well as other organic and inorganic pollutants can cause a risk to human health conditions and can even cause death (Hasan et al, 2019;Noreen et al, 2019).…”

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Local Wisdom Based Water Resources Conservation for Environmental Sustainability

Ferry¹

2019

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The purpose of this research is about to find out how the society's local wisdom of Lempur, Gunung Raya sub-district conserve water resources. Data and information were taken from interview and observation of river condition by observing its pH and transparency. This research adopts descriptive qualitative approach. The informants of this research were the leaders of custom Lekok Lima Puluh Tumbi Lempur and Village government of Lempur. The data were collected by taking the sample of river water quality, interview, and documentation. The data were analyzed by using interactive model concept proposed by Miles and Huberman (reduction, display, and verification). In general, the results of this research showed that local wisdom such as the customary law have not been implemented well yet. Based on the test of pollution parameter, it was found that the condition of waters did not achieve the level of danger yet because the level of pH is 7. It is expected that the society keep local wisdom in conserving water resources to make those water resources conserved well. Scientiae Educatia: Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

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“…Deaths caused by heavy metals occurred in Bangladesh especially to children. An analysis of the physics-chemical and concentration of heavy metals (HM) in the marble industrial waste and HM bioaccumulation in the marble industry in the Mardan Industrial Zone (MIE) Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Province), Pakistan has been reported [15]. Physics-chemistry was analyzed in 12 samples such as electrical conductivity (EC), pH, magnesium (Mg), turbidity, sodium (Na), potassium (K), calcium, hardness, chloride, and heavy metals, namely Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), Manganese (Mn), and Arsenic (As).…”

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Physics-Chemical Analysis on The Surface and Ground Water: A Case Study in Aceh Province

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Zaki²,

Mahidin³

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Environment is a habitat for all living things in the universe. Therefore, it must be preserved, especially on the surface and ground water. Environmental pollution in almost all over the world recently has been in a very alarming level. The main focus of this paper is to analyze the level of pollution on the surface and ground water that is influenced by industrial activities and other human activities. The method used in this research is field and laboratory investigations, and the material analyzed is the surface water and ground water samples. The analysis shows that industrial activities and human activities carried out so far correlated to the occurrence of pollution on the surface and ground water. The analysis showed that the heavy metal Ph at the highest water level of 0.01 mg/L was recorded in Lhokseumawe City. While the highest heavy metal Ph was also found in Lhokseumawe City by 0.0076 mg/L. The results of the analysis of heavy metals in groundwater analyzed at the three locations show that Lhokseumawe City is also the highest with 0.0076 mg/L compared to Bireuen and Aceh Utara District. While Aceh Utara District has the highest pollution for heavy metals Pb of 0.004 mg/L. Thus, there needs to be a supervision in active industries so that environmental pollution can always be stable in the future.

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Water pollution and occupational health hazards caused by the marble industries in district Mardan, Pakistan

Cited by 34 publications

References 23 publications

Assessing and Prioritizing the Climate Change Policy Objectives for Sustainable Development in Pakistan

Assessing and Prioritizing the Climate Change Policy Objectives for Sustainable Development in Pakistan

Local Wisdom Based Water Resources Conservation for Environmental Sustainability

Physics-Chemical Analysis on The Surface and Ground Water: A Case Study in Aceh Province

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