Sepa incapable of checking toxic particles, gases in air
(WorldNews Pakistan)

With all four of its tyres deflated, battery stolen and sophisticated equipment rusting away, the mobile environment monitoring system of the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) has been out of order for over eight years, as the watchdog seems uninterested in measuring the ambient air quality data in Karachi or any other city of the province, The News learnt on Tuesday. Sepa officials said the condition of the permanent environment monitoring station installed on the roof of the watchdog’s building in the Korangi Industrial Area is the same; it has been out of order for over a decade, and most of the station’s sophisticated equipment is either missing or destroyed due to...