Hyderabad Water Supply And Sewerage

Pakistan |2018-01-23 08:05:30
Water commission reprimands officers over shabby state of water supply, sewerage installations

HYDERABAD: Retired Justice Amir Hani Muslim, new head of the Supreme Court-mandated water commission, on Monday reprimanded officers concerned over dilapidated state of water supply and sewerage installations...
He directed Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA) and Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) to protect their water and sewerage facilities from encroachers and asked Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) to ensure...
Archive |2023-09-11 08:55:01
Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation digitises water tanker service in city

KARACHI: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation (KWSC) has introduced a digital system with QR codes installed on 550 registered water tankers to control the water theft through operation of illegal hydrants...
Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab, who is also the chairman of the KWSC, said on Sunday that the main objective of digitising the hydrants management cell was to ensure smooth supply of chlorinated and purified water through...
Archive |2016-11-26 06:49:05
‘New projects are without proper sewerage, water supply system’

KARACHI: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) is neither consulted before approval of any project (with water needs) nor it receives charges from the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) and the cantonment boards to develop infrastructure for water supplies...
The city has received no additional supply since 2006 and it currently faces a shortage of 430 million gallons of water per day (MGD)...
Pakistan |2017-12-12 07:05:28
CM wants master plan for water supply, sewerage prepared within 21 days

KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday directed the local government and other departments concerned to work out a master plan for water supply and sewerage with treatment facilities and submit it to his secretariat within the next 21 days...
He also directed them to prepare a detailed plan with a deadline and estimated cost for the provision of safe drinking water and treatment of drinking and waste water all over...
Archive |2019-08-23 10:05:04
World Bank to help revamp water supply, sewerage system in city, Sindh Assembly told

KARACHI: Local Government Minister Nasir Shah on Thursday informed the Sindh Assembly that the provincial government had planned to launch a project with the assistance of the World Bank to revamp the crumbling water supply and sewerage system of the city...
However, he conceded, the issues remained in the low-lying areas and there was still much work to do by the authorities concerned...
Archive |2015-05-12 07:21:05
Wasa workers threaten to stop water supply to Hyderabad today

HYDERABAD: Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa), Hyderabad, employees on Monday threatened to disrupt water supply to the city in protest against non-payment of their salaries and dues and the relevant authorities’ indifference towards their other issues...
Organised by Hyderabad Development Authority’s Mehran Workers Union, a demonstration was held by Wasa employees outside the local press club where participants carrying banners and...
Pakistan |2017-03-06 18:50:03
SC sacks KWSB MD after report reveals substandard water supply in Karachi, Hyderabad

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the removal of Karachi Water and Sewage Board Managing Director Misbahuddin during hearing of a case on the government’s failure to provide safe drinking water and sanitation facilities to the people of Sindh...
A three-judge bench of the apex court headed by Justice Amir Hani Muslim, Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Faisal Arab were hearing the case pertaining to the lack of provision of safe...
Archive |2017-02-08 07:18:55
Protesting workers disrupt water supply in Hyderabad for salaries, dues

HYDERABAD: Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA) workers on Tuesday stopped water supply to consumers in the city from 8am to 4pm in protest, causing a water shortage and other related hardships to citizens...
Led by their collective bargaining agent (CBA), they were protesting against non-payment of salaries, pension and other dues...
Pakistan |2017-02-09 06:40:29
‘The scale and severity of Karachi’s sewerage problem is enormous’

KARACHI: Despite contributing significantly to the provincial and national exchequers for decades, Karachi has not been able to receive the kind of political ownership it deserves...
Matters have become so bad that today, the city could be best described as an urbanised slum dotted with overflowing gutters and heaps of garbage...
Pakistan |2018-08-30 11:35:11
Over 2,400 water supply and drainage projects in Sindh non-functional

KARACHI: Expressing his resolve to provide clean drinking water to the people of Sindh, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has ordered the authorities to make functional all water supply schemes and reverse osmosis (RO) plants within a month...
The chief minister issued these directives while chairing two separate meetings pertaining to public health engineering and health departments at the CM House on Wednesday...
Pakistan |2017-09-25 06:48:33
Three die after inhaling toxic gases in sewerage

FAISALABAD: The Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) suspended its three officials, including an assistant director, while the deputy commissioner launched an inquiry after three labourers working on a sewerage line died due to toxic gases at Rashidabad, Ghulam Muhammadabad, on Sunday...
The deceased were identified as Ishfaq, two brothers, Shehzad and Ijaz...
Archive |2015-05-23 07:04:00
Blocked sewerage

WE, the residents of Gul Mohar Street, Gurumandar, Garden East, would like to draw the attention of the authorities concerned towards the blocked sewerage line in our locality...
This is causing severe flooding, besides breeding mosquitoes, flies and cockroaches and destroying the road...
Archive |2017-08-13 07:26:55
Residents, traders protest choked sewerage

KASUR: Residents and traders of Allahabad on Saturday took to the streets against the municipal administration over the choked sewerage system...
They blocked the Allahabad Chowk on Depalpur road by burning tyres and threw traffic out of gear...
Archive |2017-05-22 03:43:37
Pasrur residents protest choked sewerage

The demonstrators, including women and children, were carrying banners and placards during the light rainy and cloudy weather...
The protesters said that there were no cleanliness and sanitation arrangements in almost all congested residential and commercial areas of Pasrur city...
Archive |2017-05-03 00:56:29
Protest against choked sewerage, garbage in industrial area

The situation that has been persisting for almost three weeks forced the factory owners and workers to hold a protest demonstration on Tuesday against the civic authorities for not keeping the industrial area clean...
Usman Rafique, who owns a small printing unit in the area, told Dawn the sewerage around four major roads of the area was consistently choked and the roads would often get inundated with sewage, making it hard for him to...