‘1,500 water filtration plants in Punjab to be ready by year end’
July 27, 2021
LAHORE: Punjab Aab-e-Pak Authority (PAPA) was working day and night to complete 1500 water centres across the province by the end of this year.
This was revealed in a project review meeting of PAPA held here on Monday. The meeting was chaired by its Chairman Dr Shakeel Khan while Chief Executive Officer Syed Zahid Aziz accompanied him. Other senior officials of PAPA were also present at the occasion.
Providing clean water in rural areas of Punjab was one of the top priorities of the government, said Dr Shakeel. Chief Executive Officer Syed Zahid Aziz while briefing the meeting said by the end of this year, more than 1,500 water filtration plants will be completed and up to 7.6 million people will benefit from these water centres.
AIIB to finance Wasa’s two mega projects
LAHORE: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has agreed to finance Wasa’s two mega projects.
This was revealed by Managing Director Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Syed Zahid Aziz here on Monday after an online meeting with the delegation of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank at Wasa head office. Director P&D Abu Bakar Imran and Director Construction Zeeshan Bilal were also present on the occasion.
He said during the meeting, two mega projects of Wasa i.e. Surface Water Treatment Plant and Larix Colony Project were discussed and plans were made to complete the projects as soon as possible. Representatives of AIIB participated in the meeting from Beijing and discussed the pace of these projects in the meeting, he said. MD Wasa said that completion of both the projects will help save groundwater and make the climate clean.
Rain inundates Lahore roads, animal markets
July 21, 2021
LAHORE: The City received around 99mm rain here Tuesday inundating all major roads, greenbelts, open places and temporarily established markets for the sale of sacrificial animals.
The rain started early Tuesday and continued till noon. It damaged the temporarily established sale points of sacrificial animals due to which a large number of sellers thronged City roads with their animals. Mostly every greenbelt or open plot in various localities was flooded with sacrificial animals.
As per the data released by Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa), the highest rain of 99mm was recorded at Farrukhabad and lowest was recorded at 40.6mm on Jail Road. The data showed that 97mm rain was recorded at Pani Wala Talab and Nishtar Town each, 86.3mm rain at Lakshmi Chowk, 86mm at Johar Town, 73mm at Samanabad, 68mm at Gulshan-e-Ravi, 80mm each at Chowk Nakhuda and Punjab University, 59mm at Tajpura, 58mm at Iqbal Town, 53mm at Upper Mal
AIIB to finance Wasa’s two mega projects
July 20, 2021
LAHORE:Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has agreed to finance Wasa’s two mega projects. This was revealed by Managing Director Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Syed Zahid Aziz here on Monday after an online meeting with the delegation of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank at Wasa head office. Director P&D Abu Bakar Imran and Director Construction Zeeshan Bilal were also present on the occasion.
He said during the meeting, two mega projects of Wasa i.e. Surface Water Treatment Plant and Larix Colony Project were discussed and plans were made to complete the projects as soon as possible. Representatives of AIIB participated in the meeting from Beijing and discussed the pace of these projects in the meeting, he said.