ISLAMABAD, March 16: The government is making all out efforts to provide safe drinking water to all under the Khushal Pakistan Programme by taking both curative and preventive measures to achieve the objective by 2007.

This was stated by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz while talking to Environment Minister Maj (retired) Tahir Iqbal who called on him at the Prime Minister’s House on Thursday.

Mr Aziz said 6,035 water filtration plants would be installed throughout the country by 2007 at a cost of Rs10 billion. In addition to this, provincial and local governments, NGOs and private sector will be asked to contribute to the government’s efforts and set up water filtration plants at parks, petrol pumps and factories etc.

The environment minister informed the prime minister that under phase one of safe drinking water programmes, 445 treatment plants would be installed by the end of June this year.