‘Govt starts work on water project for Islamabad’

Official says project to bring 100m gallons per day from Ghazi Barotha dam initiated

ISLAMABAD:

Prime Minister’s Adviser on Capital Development Authority (CDA) Affairs Ali Nawaz Awan has said that the government has started a project to bring 100 million gallons per day (MGD) water from Ghazi Barotha dam to cater to the needs of the federal capital.

“The government is working on long- and short-term initiatives to meet water requirements of the federal capital. We have also worked on efficient water management as a short-term measure. A lot of progress has been made in this direction,” he said while speaking at a consultative meeting on ‘demonstration of nature-based solutions for improving the resilience of groundwater aquifers’.

He said that according to the 1998 census, Islamabad’s population was about 0.8 million, but according to the recent census, the federal capital’s population surged to about 2.3 million.“Within 20 years, the population in Islamabad has tripled.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 16^th, 2021.