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HYDERABAD, July 22: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil, at a meeting at his office here on Sunday, sanctioned Rs100 million for replacing damaged water supply pipelines in the city.
He told the meeting that new pipelines would be laid from main water supply pipelines up to houses of consumers and the step was being taken to ensure that drinking water did not get mixed up wit drain water.
He said that wherever filtered water was not available, water should be cleansed through chemicals and then supplied to the consumers. He said that within next six months, 25,000 damaged water connections would be replaced in the three talukas of Qasimabad, Latifabad and City.
He said that a comprehensive plan had been prepared under which 100 per cent population of Hyderabad would be supplied filtered water within a few months.
He said that two filter plants at Paretabad and Hala Naka were near completion which would supply 16 million gallon water per day to the consumers and the capacity of new and old filter plants on Jamshoro road had been increased manifold.
INAUGURATION: Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the rising main from Tulsidas pumping station to eastern sewerage treatment plant on Saturday night, the nazim said that the city residents used 40 million gallon water per day (MGD) but only 20 MGD was disposed of through sewerage lines and the remaining 20 MGD got mixed up with subterranean water.
He said that the situation spoke volumes for the outdated sewerage system and was posing danger to buildings and infrastructure and that was the reason that the district government was giving top priority to improving and modernising sewerage system in the city.
Mr Jamil said that the outdated and collapsed sewerage system was the main problem of Hyderabad therefore the district government had given top priority to resolving this problem without which city development would remain a dream.
He said that in furtherance of this objective, the district government had spent tens of millions of rupees on laying a network of underground sewerage lines and added that the disposal capacity of 19 pumping stations had been increased manifold. He said in order to keep the sewerage system operational during rains and power outages, heavy generators had been installed at the pumping stations.
Giving details about the rising main, he said that the length of the 36- inch rising main was 17,535 feet and it had been laid in three months at a cost of Rs146 million.
HDA director-general Altaf Hussain Memon, Wasa managing director Abdul Malik Khatri, district works and services committee chairman Munawwar Khanzai and a large number of councillors and people of the locality attended the inaugural ceremony.
