KARACHI, June 14: The city on Saturday started getting an additional supply of 10 million gallons of water per day from the Indus source, raising the supply from the source to 560mgd.
The localities benefiting from the additional supply include different parts of Old City area, Mehmoodabad, Manzoor Colony, Channesar Goth, PECHS and some other localities belonging to Saddar, Jamshed and Liaquatabad Towns, according to the officials of the city government’s water and sanitation department.
Unveiling the details of the project, whereby the W&S department has managed to get additional supply of 10mgd from the Indus source, deputy managing director (Technical Services) Suleman Chandio told Dawn that the Rs4 million project was initiated some three months back for strengthening the banks of the KG Canal and KDA Old Canal and eliminating weed growth.
With the completion of the project, the W&S department has now started receiving additional 10mgd from the Indus source, he said and added that the additional water would, however, be drawn during summer season only. This practice will continue till the completion of the K-3 project whereby the city would fetch another 100mgd from the Indus source in 2005.
He said that for the purpose of pumping the additional 10mgd water to the COD filter plant, three new pumps, one of 4.5mgd and the rest of 2.5mgd, had been installed at K-2 pumping station and as result of which the level of water at the filter plant increased to 136 feet.
HUB DAM: With regard to the supply from the Hub source, the official sources said that 15mgd of water would be restored to the city from the dam by July 1.
“Arrangements are being made to fetch 15mgd of water from below the dead storage level of Hub dam’s reservoir by installing 10 pumps,” the sources said, adding that Balochistan had already started drawing water from the reservoir.
Water supply to the city from the Hub source was suspended on June 5 when water level in the dam’s reservoir went down to 277 RL (Reservoir Level). The suspension led the authorities to curtail the supply duration in North Karachi, Baldia and Orangi by four hours.
However, a high-level meeting held recently with provincial additional chief secretary Ghulam Sarwar Khehro in the chair, decided to resume the supply to the city and Lasbela from the Hub source after some time through pumping from the reservoir to the canal on rotation basis.
Under an arrangement agreed upon at the meeting, which was attended by senior officials of the W&S department, Wapda as well as Balochistan’s irrigation department, Karachi and Balochistan would draw water from the Hub source for 72 and 48 hours respectively on rotation basis.
KARACHI, June 14: The city on Saturday started getting an additional supply of 10 million gallons of water per day from the Indus source, raising the supply from the source to 560mgd.
