HYDERABAD, July 25: The district government, to provide filtered water to the people of Paretabad, has decided to construct a filter plant at a cost of Rs370m while 70 per cent work of its work completed said the district Nazim Hyderabad Kanwar Naveed Jamil, on Tuesday.

Within next two months, the residents of a vast area of Paretabad, Phulelli, Liaquat Colony and adjoining localities will get clean drinking water he said and added that the capacity of Paretabad pumping station-I and 2 to dispose of sewerage water had also been increased by 400 per cent.

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