KARACHI, July 10: The Pakistan Tanneries Association (PTA) and the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) on Saturday struck a deal under which the KWSB will supply 6 million gallons per day of sewerage water to a treatment plant of the PTA, so that the slat content of the contaminated water of tanneries could be brought down, enabling it to be treated and reused in the tannery units.

KWSB Managing Director Brig Iftikhar Haider and PTA President Gulzar Feroze signed the deal.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Haider said that the environmental committee of the PTA had prepared a treatment plant, which would help treating the contaminated water of tanneries, and thus ending pollution.

He said that sewerage water would be provided to this plant and for this purpose necessary KWSB staff would be deputed at Sewerage Pumping Station-II.

PTA President Gulzar Feroze said that they would bring the sewerage water from the Sewerage Pumping Station-II to the treatment plant and install a generator at the pumping station, so that the sewerage water supply could remain continued during power outages.

He said that presently some 22 tanneries were working in Korangi area.

Mr Feroze said that they would continue to strive to treat the contaminated water of these units to reduce environmental pollution.

DMD Technical Services Israr Zaidi, Chief Engineers Fareed Soomro, Gulzar Memon, PTA General Secretary Ihsan Illahi, Gohar Rasheed and Mohammad Khalid were also present.—PPI