Public Chronicles

Environmental pollution is the most evident issue of 21 st century across the globe. Degradation of resources rise in temperature, rapid industrialization, unregulated urbanization, ailing quality of fresh water resources and contamination of resources are resulting in reckless degradation of finite resources. While the research across the globe is focusing of developing better and cleaner technologies; developing nations deal with another crucial issue i.e. Access to proper sanitation. According to the Report on Stunting in Pakistan (2017) by Inter-Agency Regional Analysis Report, 1.9 million children are already stunted which is directly attributed to unhealthy environment for the children. The report on Impact of Clean Drinking and Sanitation on Water Borne Diseases in Pakistan (2018) by SDPI shows that urban zones show high prevalence of Diarrhea among children resulting in 31% among children with non-improved sanitation facilities. Open drains are the biggest and evide...

The results of 6 th Population and Housing Census of Pakistan (2017) showed that currently 32 million houses are present in Pakistan. The rise in population is usually observed sue to informal expansion of cities due to numerous factors like topographical constrains, transportation infrastructure and biophysical characteristics in specific pattern. This pattern of expansion largely affects urban formation. Infrastructure development and services affect the emerging cities. Pakistan has been ranked as world’s most populous country in 2015. The growing population has not only overburdened the natural resources and economic growth but also contributed to increase in dissolute, unchecked and far-stretched cities in Pakistan. Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (1998-1999), Labor Force Survey (1997-1998) and Pakistan Census (1998) are the only data sets available to determine the demographic transitions. In short, no proper data records are available to determine the exact population o...