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KARACHI 10 years back
Karachi,
Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, needs an amount of Rs 7 million to continue
the task of regulating water supply to Orangi and Baldia Town areas
through hired water bowzers after July 31 and also urged the
residents to pray for rain.
Brig Shaukat Mahmood Chaudhry, the Deputy Director General of
Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, said that rangers had been assigned, as a
part of the KWSB contingency plan, to take up the responsibility of
supplying water to the deficient pockets of Baldia and Orangi town
through hired private tankers and bowzers as well as NLC tankers.
Presently, 63 newly constructed and modified tanks having the total
storage capacity of 306000 gallons were being filled through tankers
and bowzers every day, he added during a press briefing at his
office.
Due to absence to significant rains, there was an urgent need of
adequate finances from the government to enhance the supply through
tankers.
“Whatever we are doing is not enough at all, but paucity of funds is
restricting us from providing more water to civilians through
tankers,” he added. Army Headquarters 5 corps had once again been
requested for further flow of money, he said.
Dispelling the impression that rangers had assumed the total
responsibility of water supply, he said that what Rangers had
ensured was the non-politicized and pilferage free supply from KWSB
hydrants to various localities.
Misbahuddin Farid, Chief Engineer (Distribution), KWSB, after
cutting a sorry state of water situation urged the consumers and
citizens of Karachi to pray to almighty Allah for rains in the
catchment areas of the Hub dam. He advised them to preserve water as
much as they could, as that was the only way to combat the water
crisis in the situation, badly affected by rapid population
explosion.
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The News: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 |
