World Wide Fund-Pakistan (WWF-Pak) has installed Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant at Sindh's Kaka Pir Village to supply pure drinking water to the coastal area community. According to WWF-Pak's Wetland Centre's Co-ordinator, Naveed Ali Soomro, the WWF has installed one RO plant in a village of Sindh for converting saline water into fresh drinking water as the residents of the coastal area, in the absence of fresh water supply, had no choice but to purchase a water tanker at an exorbitant rate of Rs 3,000.
The plant set up at an estimated cost of Rs 3 million could purify 10,000 gallons of water per day, which is almost more than daily requirement of the villagers, the Wetlan Centre's official said, adding that with the installation of the RO plant, the community would get water supply at a very low rate, instead of buying water tankers at higher rates.
Highlighting the activities of WWF-Pak, he said that the Fund in collaboration with Karachi Youth Initiative had also organized a four-day beach cleaning, recycling and resource management activity at WWF-Pak's Wetland Centre at Sandpit where 800 individuals from different government schools took part.
A wildlife expert at WWF-Pak, Saeed-ul-Islam, said that the main idea behind beach cleaning was to highlight the significance of seashore for turtles as clean area of sandpit usually remain occupied by thousands of turtles for laying eggs. About recycle and resource management programme, an expert of Green School at WWF-Pak, Zain Awan, said that since development of leadership quality among youths was their priority, they provided an opportunity to students to demonstrate their creativity, besides urging them to replace polythene bags with the cloth bags.