Flood-hit areas: Saudi Arabia to provide $120,000 for water schemes

King Abdullah's Relief Campaign for Pakistani People will provide funds amounting to US $120,000 to Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD) with the purpose to install water pumps and filtration plants in the flood-ravaged areas of Punjab and Sindh.
In this connection, KARCPP signed a Memorandum of Understanding with HHRD, here on Friday, under which the latter would install water pumps and filtration plants in the flood-affected areas, especially hospitals and mosques, aimed at providing safe and clean drinking water to the community.
Saudi Ambassador, Abdul Aziz Al-Ghadeer has also provided information about the projects to be completed in different areas affected by devastating floods. These are drilling of 100 water bore-holes along-with installation of water pumps, 24 water purification plants with a capacity of 50 gallons per day and installation of two water filtration plants having capacity of 200 gallons per hour.
The schemes are being initiated on the directives of Prince Naif bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud to help the flood victims of 2010 and 2011 of the two provinces. According to Regional Director KARCPP, Dr Khalid M. Al-Othmani, a MoU was earlier also signed between KARCPP and Unicef in Riyadh to rehabilitate 76 water schemes in the flood-affected areas of Balochistan.-PR