LAHORE – The official agency responsible for supplying quality drinking water to the people of Lahore claims that it is doing well what it is supposed to do.
However, a survey conducted by The Nation in various areas of the metropolis shows no decrease in the use of bottled water in Lahore despite the recent exhortation by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar to people that they use boiled water and give up the expe nsive one being marketed by various companies.
Water and Sanitation Agency has 560 filtration plants in the metropolis from where nine million people take clean drinking water everyday, WASA authorities said.
Another store owner in Garden Town said he did not see any fluctuation in bottled water sales.Sales are as usual, he said.
“A recent test of Wasa’s water carried out on orders of Supreme Court of Pakistan showed that our water was up to the mark.
It’s a tool teams love… monday.com Signup Now Right now, of 12 million population of the city, Wasa has 0.7 million water connections and is collecting revenue from 80,000 meters.
To improve the revenue collection we have introduced Project Blue Drop and have approved the budget in Annual Development Budget ADB 2018-19 at the cost of 3.62 billion,” MD Wasa said.
Project Blue Drop is a five-year project and 2018-19 100,000 consumer connections will be given.
The water filtration plants are equipped with Auto-wash back system and it does not require filters that used to be installed in old filtration plants and required hefty amount of amoney to change those filters.
Instead of starting new schemes, Wasa is focusing on completion of old schemes including a scheme of ‘Improvement of Water Supply System in MA Johar Town & Tajpura Zones of Lahore’ through Zoning/Isolation, Installation of Filtration Plants and 100 Metering (Bulk, Distribution and Consumer Levels), Lahore on which 26 percent work has been completed.