ISLAMABAD: The government is taking practical steps to ensure provision of clean
drinking
water to the peopl
e in Balochistan.
According to a report citing an official of Engineering Department Quetta, Rs 3.9 billion
have been allocated in the budget for construction of new
water supply schemes in urban as well as rural areas.
He said more than four hundred old and non-operational
water supply schemes
have been upgraded and made operational. The official said construction work on six
water storage dams and fifty filtration plants is also
in progress at full pace.
Moreover, five hundred
water supply tube wells are being installed with solar power generation systems at a cost of Rs 2.5 billion.