ISLAMABAD: Coca-Cola Beverages Pakistan Ltd (CCI Pakistan), which is part of CCI-a leading bottler within the Coca-Cola System, signed an agreement with Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) Lahore to provide treated waste water.
CCI Pakistan being a responsible corporate citizen will provide treated waste water to PHA for a period of five years for carrying out routine watering of green belts, parks and cleaning of roads in Lahore.
This initiative will help conserve millions of litres of precious drinking water which is currently being extracted from the ground for the purpose of horticulture watering. CCI Pakistan's Lahore plant has a capacity to provide up to 40,000 litres of treated waste water per hour to PHA which indicates the massive volume of fresh drinking water that will be conserved through this strategic partnership.
The agreement was signed during a ceremony held the other day at PHA's head office in Lahore between Basit Zafar Pirzada, Public Affairs Manager at CCI Pakistan and Muhammad Awais Bhatti, Director Planning and Development at PHA Lahore.
Also present were senior officials including Fahad Ashraf, VP & General Manager for Pakistan and Afghanistan region at The Coca-Cola Export Corporation, Jawad Ahmed Qureshi, Director General PHA, Yasir Gillani, Chairman PHA. Other notable guests included Justice Ali Akbar Qureshi (R), Chairman Water Commission and Zahid Aziz Syed, Managing Director WASA.
While talking about the strategic importance of this partnership, Fahad Ashraf, VP & General Manager for Pakistan and Afghanistan region at The Coca-Cola Export Corporation said, "The Coca-Cola system's intense focus to appropriately treat water utilized during manufacturing process and return it back to nature has moved wastewater treatment from a goal to a standard operating requirement."
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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