Issues and Challenges in Managing Lake Water Quality Presented By: Shama Sharif, Aneela Khalid

1. Watershed Management
Issues and Challenges in Managing Lake Water Quality
Presented By: Shama Sharif, Aneela Khalid

2. Overview
• Introduction
• Causes of Deterioration of Watershed
• Consequences of Deterioration of Watershed
• Factors Lacking behind in Maintenance of Lake
• Solutions to watershed Deterioration
• Conclusions

3. Introduction:
• Watershed
• Watershed mainly
Discussed
• Importance of this
watershed

5. Causes of Deterioration
of Watershed:
• Rapid Population Growth
• Massive Urbanization
• Discharge of no. of Pollutants
• Air quality Pollutants
• Pollutants in Water
• Eutrophication issues

6. Consequences of Deterioration of Watershed:
• Overexploitation of
Lake Water Resources
• Lack of clean water
• Death of water
organisms
• Blockage of sunlight on
Lake surface
• Less recreational
activities

7. Factors Lacking behind in
Maintenance of Lake:
• Majority of the lake is still being
managed in an uncoordinated and
fragmented manner
• approach adopted by lake managers
of “wait until it turns bad” towards
lake water quality leads to severe
deterioration of resources within the
lake ecosystem
• Lack of specific scientific equipment

8. Solutions to watershed Deterioration:
• Water quality parameters must be Regularly Monitored
• Limitations and problems faced by Lake Managers, Authorities must
be acknowledged, determined and thoroughly discussed
• By forbidding the industries and other people not to throw pollutants,
giving awareness

9. Conclusion:
• A clean and pristine lakes is also a tangible reflection of the
quality of life in a community.
• A beautiful lake is the asset of country, mainly a best
recreational site
• It play important role in economy of the country
• Both the lake managers and residential people have to play
their role in keeping the lake clean

11. Any
Question!