KARACHI, Dec 6: The Sindh Minister for Industries, Adil Siddiqui, said here on Tuesday that currently a plant was being installed in Karachi to treat

25 million gallon domestic sewerage water daily that would be used for overcoming the shortage of water for industrial use.

The work on the installation of plant would begin in the next two weeks. The plant would supply 16 million gallon treated water to the industries, he added.

According to an official handout, the minister said that there was also headway on the industrial effluent treatment plant of 40 million gallon water capacity especially meant for SITE area.

Since the government wanted to make this project attractive and cost effective for the foreign investors, it had carried out a study for reducing the estimated cost of the project, he added saying that as a result there would be a significant reduction in the cost of treating the effluent.

The minister said that the government was also seeking expert opinion on the use of saline water to be discharged into the sea through Right Bank Outfall Drain.

He said that if the experts gave encouraging results, a project would be conceived for the utilization of this water for giving boost to the industries of Karachi and the interior of Sindh.

The minister told that the federal government had given a grant to the Sindh government for making the industrial infrastructure and drainage system according to the international standards.—PPI