DADU, Aug 3: Residents of Sehwan and adjoining villages have started receiving daily 1.7 million gallons of clean drinking water after the initiation of a scheme wherein water from River Indus is pumped into three storage ponds and then supplied to consumers after passing through a treatment plant.

Deputy Commissioner of Jamshoro Agha Sohail Ahmed Pathan visited the pumping station and storage ponds and examined the quality of water supplied to people.

Talking to Dawn he said that it was a long-standing demand of the people which had finally been fulfilled with the assistance of funds of the MPA Syed Murad Ali Shah.

He said that water after being lifted from the river is stored in Sehwan ponds and then treated on modern equipments at a plant located nearby.

Storage ponds, filter plant and pumping scheme are all fully secured by a protection wall besides a strong base has also been constructed at the embankment to shelter it in case of super flood, he said. —Correspondent