MULTAN, July 1: City District Nazim Faisal Mukhtar said on Saturday that water meters will be installed at consumers’ house to check wastage.

“Good quality pipelines will be laid from main water supply lines to homes to ensure provision of clean water to the people”, he said at a meeting held to review pace of the work on clean drinking water, solid waste management and modern slaughter houses projects being executed in 21 tehsils of the district with cooperation of the Asian Development Bank.

ADB advisor Dr Shakeel Khan, DCO Iftikhar Babar, Wasa MD Chaudhry Manzoor Hussain and other officials concerned attended the meeting.

Old pipelines would also be replaced in the city while public toilets would be set up at different points including Old Shujabad, Aam Khas Bagh, Hussain Agahi, near cricket stadium, Pak Gate, Chowk Qazafi, and Shaheen Market, the nazim said.

He said a modern slaughter house would be set up on five acres soon after shifting of cattle market from the site.

Wasa MD said, the agency’s tube wells suck water from 450-feet depth which was free from contaminations like arsenic. Admitting that traces of arsenic were found in the ground water near industrial areas, the MD said installation of tube wells would soon begin there to solve this problem.—-APP