Wasa plans to convert Paniwala Talab into water museum
Lahore
December 23, 2020
LAHORE:Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) has planned to convert the century-old Paniwala Talab and its water supply system powered by a steam engine installed at Badamibagh into a water museum.
The museum, which will be the first of its kind across the country, will exhibit the steam engine, water supply system and the city’s biggest water storage tank known as Paniwala Talab.
This was the first pre-independence water supply for the Walled City of Lahore and was built in 1884 under the rule of Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison, a Scottish-born Lt-Governor of Punjab, the founder of Aitchison College. The Paniwala Talab, its engine and the water supply system are glorious reminder of our colonial heritage, said Wasa Managing Director Syed Zahid Aziz.