KARACHI, June 4: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has started installing mini filter plants on trial basis at community and union council levels to ensure provision of pure water for drinking purpose to citizens.

The first such mini filter plant was installed at Civic View apartments, Gulshan-i-Iqbal. It may be recalled that the nazim on his return from China last week had announced in a press conference that 600 mini filter plants would be installed in Karachi.

Addressing the ceremony, KWSB Managing Director Brig Iftikhar Haider said a mini filter plant would cost Rs1.5 million and its annual expenditures on maintenance were only Rs6,000. This plant would supply 20 litre purified water to each of 600 apartments daily.—PPI