Water shortage intensifies in Pindi
People have to stand in long queues in sweltering heat to get water
Residents of Dhok Manshi filling their water canes at a tube-well in Rawalpindi. PHOTO: AGHA MAHROZ/EXPRESS
RAWALPINDI:
The water shortage has intensified in the garrison city as the groundwater level went down around 700 feet on Friday while the water in Rawal Dam and Khanpur Dam has touched the dead level.
“Water supply in Khayaban-e-Sir Syed is available only three days a week while on the remaining four days citizens have no choice but form a queue to fetch water from outside. The serious shortage of water has made our lives miserable especially in this hot weather,” said Saeed Shams, a resident of the locality.
Water shortage intensifies in Pak s Rawalpindi
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NTDC starts work on transmission line for Suki Kinari project
Will connect transmission with 500 kV Neelum-Jhelum transmission line
PHOTO: REUTERS
ISLAMABAD:
The National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) has started construction of 75-kilometer-long 500 kV double circuit transmission line for evacuation of power from 870MW Suki Kinari Hydropower Project.
The transmission will be connected with 500 kV Neelum-Jhelum transmission line. NTDC has completed basic works like survey and soil investigation, route validation, demarcation of forest trees, approach and access roads etc.
NTDC Managing Director Muhammad Ayub inaugurated the construction works for the first tower of the said transmission line at Garhi Habibullah, Kyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He directed the NTDC teams and contractor to complete the project before its deadline. The NTDC MD also planted a tree at the power house of Suki Kinari hydropower plant as part of ongoing tree plantation campaign of NTDC.
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