ISLAMABAD: The government is taking practical steps to ensure provision of clean drinking water to the people in Balochistan.
According to a report citing an official of Engineering Department Quetta, Rs
3.9 billion have been allocated in the budget f
or construction of new water supply schemes
in urban as well as rural areas.
He said more than four hundred old and non-operational water supply schemes have been upgraded and made operational. The official said construction work on six water storage dams and fifty filtration plants is also in progress at full pace.
Moreover, f
ive hundred water supply tube wells are being in
stalled with solar power generation systems at a cost of Rs 2.5 billion.
