HYDERABAD, Dec 24: The irrigation department has announced closure of Kotri Barrage canals from Dec 26 to Jan 10. The managing director of Wasa here on Saturday notified that during the closure period, the agency would supply drinking water to people from its storage tanks which had a capacity for 10 days. However, he said, sine the closure period was 15 days, Wasa had to reduce water supply to two-third.
He said Wasa had arranged water tankers for providing water to tail-end areas. He said an emergency centre had also been set up at the Thandi Sarak pumping station where complaints could be lodged on telephone numbers 9200090, 9200199, 9260230, 9240043 and 9240173.
Meanwhile, the Wasa managing director asked people to cooperate with the agency and remain vigilant against those elements who stole manhole covers.
In a statement issued here on Saturday, he said manholes had been provided at a 50-feet distance in sewers for smooth de-silting and removal of garbage.
He said open manholes posed a threat to motorists and pedestrians and chocked sewers.
SOLAR ENERGY: There was abundant potential of renewable energy sources in the country, mainly solar energy, said Dr Tariq Muneer, an eminent scholar from the Napier University of Scotland in UK.
He was delivering a lecture on ‘application of solar energy in Pakistan’, organized on Friday by the Directorate of Continuing Education at the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology.
He said Pakistan was an energy deficient country and relied on the import of oil.
Dr Muneer said that per capita energy consumption in Pakistan was very low.
The scholar from the university in Scotland said that Pakistan’s population was 2.5 per cent of the world’s total population but it consumed only 0.5 per cent of the total energy of the world.
On the other hand, the US had five per cent of the world’s total population but it consumed 25 per cent of the world’s total energy.
He said the indigenous rese-rves of oil and gas were limited in the country and would get over in 12 and 21 years, respectively.
