Tree cutting goes on unchecked in national park
ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: They say national parks are national treasures.
However, that seems to be forgotten in Islamabad, where tree cutting has become unprecedented, uncontrolled and free for all in the Margalla Hills National Park.
Islamabad’s streetlights going solar
ISLAMABAD: A portion of the capital city is set to be lit through
Anti-littering law comes into force
ISLAMABAD, Oct 12: The Capital Development Authority has started imposing fine on people throwing waste into the open under the recently-enforced anti-littering law.
Who is benefiting from CDA’s sanitation helpline?
Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Imtiaz Inayat Elahi is obsessed with two things. One, the green character of the city and the second is its cleanliness.
A disaster greater than natural
ISLAMABAD, March 23: Given the frequency of natural disasters in the world and the devastation that they cause, one would have expected public institutions to welcome offers of training in survival methods, but not the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE).
Tampering with natural drains worrisome
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: A report of the Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) planning wing questions the practice of allowing construction on the land along drains and changing their routes, fearing it would disrupt the natural outflow of rainwater from the capital, Dawn has learnt.
Dredging of water channel from Jan 12
RAWALPINDI, Dec 23: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB), Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) and the Capital Development Authority (CDA) will start dredging of the 19-kmlong water channel from Khanpur Dam to Sangjani water filtration station on January 12.
Saving the Rawal Lake from pollution Halfway measures won’t do
ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (PakEPA) told a Senate committee on Wednesday that soak pits and septic tanks were temporary arrangements to control the flow of solid waste into the Rawal Lake.
“We need treatment plants and proper piping to completely divert the toxic flow away from the lake,” emphasised DG Pak-EPA, Asif Shuja to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment.
Senate body to take up lake pollution
ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: The Senate standing committee on environment is all set to take up the issue of Rawal Lake contamination and Islamabad’s industrial pollutants.
Over 400 cases filed against Rawal Dam polluters
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: It seems the government is finally waking up to the increasing level of pollution in Rawal Dam, as only recently the departments concerned have filed a record number of 430 cases against the polluters.