1. an issue of Life and Livelihoods and Role of Biotechnology in Water
Water and Poverty:
an issue of Life and Livelihoods
and
Role of Biotechnology in Water
and Wastewater Technology By
Momal Umer

2. Presentation flow Introduction
Water – A Key to Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Pakistan
MDG Goals and Pakistan’s position
Water related diseases
Key Challenges
Role of Biotechnology in Water and Wastewater Technology
Bayesian methods for livelihood, water, and poverty analysis

3. Introduction
The water crisis is a largely silent crisis in Pakistan. Every year, some 1.4 million people in Pakistan, mostly children, die from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene.

4. Water – A Key to Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Pakistan
Water is life, for people and for the planet. It is essential to the well-being of humankind and a basic requirement for the healthy functioning of all the world’s ecosystems.

5. Water availability in Pakistan

6. WATER AVAILABILITY VS POPULATION GROWTH

7. Millennium Development Goals
Goal 1: Halve extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

8. Water related diseases
Anaemia
Arsenicosis
Ascariasis
Botulism
Campylobacteriosis
Cholera
Cryptosporiodiosis
Cyanobacterial toxins
Dengue

9. Key Challenges
There are significant social, economic, ecological, and capacity obstacles to meeting the MDG for water and sanitation. Overcoming them will require more effective water governance and bio-technology.

10. Role of Biotechnology in Water and Wastewater Technology

11. Environmental biotechnology “manages microbial communities to provide services to society.”
Two timely examples are the reduction of oxidized water contaminants and the production of methane, hydrogen, electricity, ethanol, and biodiesel
Source: Nerenberg et al., 2002; Nerenberg and Rittmann, 2004

12. Two Categories The Value of Reduced Products
The Revolution from Molecular Microbial Ecology
Source: Nerenberg et al., 2002; Nerenberg and Rittmann, 2004

13. Success
Removal of one or several of the oxidized contaminants from drinking water or groundwater.
Removal of one or several of the oxidized contaminants from industrial wastewater.
Advanced N removal in wastewater treatment.
Source: Nerenberg et al., 2002; Nerenberg and Rittmann, 2004

14. Bayesian methods for livelihood, water, and poverty analysis

15. Introduction
This demonstrates methods for modeling rural livelihood systems in water-poor communities as part of a larger goal of linking physical models to models of social and ecological systems

16. Methods Generating networks from field reports
Creating conditional probability tables

17. Results
Part of the model is shown as five submodels: Livelihood Assets, Land, Rice Production, Water Supply, and Finances

18. Conclusion
In order to alleviate the detrimental effects of poor water management and a lack of adequate financial resources, we should get help from the technologies by using bio-informatics to save the life of poor people in our country.

19. Thank You Questions??