September 11, 2008	Thursday	Ramazan 10, 1429

KARACHI, Sept 10: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has asked the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) to ensure normal supply of water to all areas in the city. He was chairing a meeting held on Wednesday to review the board’s ongoing development projects. He was given a briefing on the position of water supply and distribution in different parts of the city.

Managing Director of the board Ghulam Arif maintained that water scarcity was being experienced in some areas because of power load-shedding, which was badly affecting the pumping process.

Mr Kamal told the meeting that an amount of Rs30 billion had been spent over the last two and half years on the improvement of the water and sewerage system in the metropolis. New pipelines had been laid and the distribution system improved during the period, he said, adding: “It is the result of our best strategy that there is no water crisis in the city whereas there used to be public protests in the past against water shortage.”

He urged KWSB officials to pay special attention to the availability of adequate water to citizens during Ramazan so that the citizens did not face any shortage in the fasting month.

He directed them to keep power generators in order wherever the equipment was available in order to ensure an uninterrupted pumping.—APP