CCI Pakistan installs 4 new water filtration plants

ISLAMABAD: Coca-Cola Beverages Pakistan Limited (CCI Pakistan) has successfully installed four new water filtration plants for underprivileged communities in Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Layyah and Badin. According to an announcement of the company here on Thursday, the water filtration plants, set up in partnership with World Wide Fund (WWF), use leading water treatment technologies such as reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration to produce clean drinking water.

With the addition of four new plants, the total number of water filtration plants installed across the country by CCI Pakistan now stands at 28. Each plant has an individual capacity of producing up to 2,000 litres of clean drinking water per hour. CCI Pakistan's Paani project is serving over one million people with clean drinking water per day, thus protecting them against critical waterborne diseases. Waterborne diseases including typhoid, intestinal worms, diarrhoea, and gastroenteritis are very common and rampant in Pakistan.

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