Pakistan: Haphazard dumping of solid waste causing environmental hazards in Sahiwal

Punjab [Pakistan], December 16 (ANI): For over two decades, the Sahiwal Metropolitan Corporation has been disposing of the city's solid waste near the Jhal Road Overhead Bridge on the banks of the Lower Bari Doab Canal (LBDC), Dawn reported.

Despite the city's transition to a metropolitan corporation in 2008, it still lacks a dedicated dumping site, and the Jhal Road area was chosen arbitrarily for waste disposal, without