Those mard-e-momins for all their false bravado, incessant trolling about India and ISPR propaganda can't even develop a proper water system if their life depended on it.
Sewage water is used for drinking and growing veggies by aam abduls while their Pindi generals and elites consume bottled mineral water.
http://herald.dawn.com/news/1153607
How sewage waste makes its way into our kitchens
Saman Ghani Khan
Updated Dec 19, 2016 12:56pm
Nourished by the city’s sewage and industrial waste from nearby Korangi and Landhi areas, vegetables that emerge from this reeking sludge are surprisingly green and deceptively healthy-looking. To the unsuspecting eye, the produce of the area, which include spinach, tori (ridge gourd), green chilli, and karela (bitter gourd), appear perfectly normal — even attractive.
There is something unappetising about associating food with human waste. It is also a serious public health hazard. Vegetables grown with untreated waste water are toxic and have been proven, several times over, to be unfit for human consumption. Not only is the sale of these vegetables unethical but it is also illegal. Section 273 of the Pakistan Penal Code clearly states that it is a punishable offence to sell any food or drink item which is “noxious”, or unfit for people to consume. The Pure Food Ordinance 1960 also holds a seller responsible for supplying foods, including raw vegetables, which are poisonous.
The only pools of water that exist in this part of the Malir basin today have a sickly green and blackish colour that even the birds and insects stay clear of.
Two large pipes jut out from the ground and white foam collects at the opening, as a seemingly endless supply of waste flows out from the pipes, causing the rocks around them to take on a peculiar red colour. “Have you ever seen a rock of this colour?” asks Raza.
These pipes are part of an innovative irrigation system. Sewage lines that transport the city’s untreated waste to the Malir River have been blocked and pumps have been installed to divert the waste water flowing through those pipelines – considered fertile, cheap and available – to a rectangular system of canals that criss-cross the fields. Somebody has gone through a lot of trouble to set all this up.
With assured year-round supply in a city where water is scarce, waste water irrigation has the added benefit of higher cropping intensities, with twice as much yield compared to fields irrigated with normal water. With insufficient food regulation, poor monitoring and law enforcement and, in many cases, murky land ownership, it is easy to understand why someone would try to exploit the situation at the cost of public health.