The government of Pakistan has embarked upon a Rs 300 million project to address the drinking water shortage problem in the country. Work on the project would be kicked off by July this year. Talking to APP here on Monday, State Minister for Environment, Amin Aslam Khan said that under this project initially a clean water filtration plant would be set up in every Tehsil.
He pointed out that Prime Minister Shuakat Aziz was himself heading this clean drinking water initiative which would be supervised by the ministries of Science and Technology, Health and Environment.
The very purpose of the project was to ensure provision of clean drinking water to the people.
Amin Qasim informed that the project had already been approved and the first tranche of Rs 15 million had been released. He further stated that the federal government would fund the project.
"Our target is to ensure the provision of clean drinking water to every Pakistani," he remarked adding that the goal would be pursued through a step by step approach.
The first plant had been decided to be set up in Hyderabad where the provision of clean drinking water was a serious problem. He said that for the environment monitoring a Rs 1.3 billion project would be taken up with the Japanese grant. While the monitoring of the ambient air would be carried out so as to determine the baseline.
He stated that this project was now going into the implementation stage with the assistance of the JICA. Amin Aslam pointed out that the project would be completed in two years.
In the first stage, monitoring stations would be set up in five major cities of Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and Karachi.
The Minister also informed that Pakistan had ratified the Koyoto agreement in January this year that became international law in February.
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