PHE Minister urges media to create awareness. PHOTO: FILE
These views were expressed by the minister in a seminar held in Quetta to highlight the 100 days performance of WASA in the province.
Members of the provincial assembly Malik Naseer Shahwani, Ahmed Nawaz Baloch, Akhtar Hussain Langove, Nasarullah Zaray, district MD Wasa Mujeebul Rehman Qambrani, and other officials were also present on the occasion.
Dummar told the gathering that he and the department officials were making all-out efforts to overcome the problem of water scarcity in the province and provide maximum relief to the people.
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He said that strategic reforms would be introduced to upgrade the WASA agency in the province in-line with modern technology.
Officials had been directed to utilise all available resources for the welfare of the masses, he added.
“The agency is making efforts to improve the water supply system but the citizens should also adopt measures to conserve the commodity,” said Dummar.
He said, “We have to bring change in society beyond political affiliations”.
The minister urged media to create public awareness of measures to conserve water.
He emphasised provincial assembly members to unite at one platform and take collective measure for resolution of public issues.
He suggested MPAs and other provincial ministers hold open courts in their respective constituencies.
MPAs while speaking at the seminar said that water shortage was emerging as a serious national issue of the country and policymakers should focus on urgent construction of dams to cope with the rising water crisis in Balochistan.
“Balochistan has been facing groundwater stress for decades as levels continue to decline due to decreasing rainfall, increasing temperatures, prolonged droughts and a growing number of tube wells,” they said.
The members of the House expressed their views and also gave a variety of suggestions to improve the performance of WASA.
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