The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) has installed the first mini-water plant as a pilot project at an estimated cost of Rs 1.5 million at the civic view apartment in Gulshan-e-Iqbal town.
The water filter plant was installed with the assistance of a Canadian firm Mobile Cube Corporation (MCC) and will be formally inaugurated by the City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal. On the occasion, Vice President, MCC Lin Armstrong Sherwood, and several other MCC and KWSB officials were present.
Speaking on the water filter installation ceremony was held here the previous night, Managing Director KWSB, Brigadier Iftikhar Haider said that as per plan already chalked out by the CDGK around 600 such plants would be installed in union councils on community level all over the city.
Regretting over the past failures about water filter plants installation, he said a huge amount of money had been wasted on such projects in the past and resulted in failure. However, the new water-filters would be installed and made functional successfully at a reasonable cost, he hoped.
He said the maintenance cost of such water filters were only Rs 6,000 annually, while residence of 600 apartments would also be provided with 20 litre clean water monthly from the plant without any cost. Lin Armstrong Sherwood also addressed the gathering.