Department
of Environmental Sciences, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan with the financial
support from WaterAid Pakistan has started a week-long awareness campaign in
Schools and Colleges in District Mardan to commemorate and contribute the
global movement for accelerating changes to achieve SDG 6 – clean water and
sanitation for all. The awareness
campaign will continue till March 20, followed by a seminar on March 21, 2023. AWKUM
teams conducting comprehensive awareness sessions covering the role of students
in awareness raising around the theme; like, clean drinking water, adequate
sanitation facilities and hygienic behavior in approving the overall health and
hygiene conditions of the society. Overwhelmingly responses were received from
the students and they took keen interest to interlink the poor WASH services
with poor health and adequate WASH services with improved health and hygiene
conditions’ conceptual model. WaterAid Pakistan and the Department of
Environmental Sciences will continue to play their due roles in accelerating awareness
among different stakeholders to put on track the SDG 6: clean water and sanitation for all.
