WSSP to install flow meters on tube wells

Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) with financial assistance from Islamic Relief International has started installing flow meters on its remaining tube-wells to help determine the underground water level and demand and supply gaps.

The flow meters will help WSSP get timely and accurate data regarding water quantity, demand and supply.

It will also help the company ascertain if groundwater level is increasing or decreasing.

The device has been installed on nine tube-wells in Zone-A, C and D and being fitted to the remaining tube-wells.

The company recently installed Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) as a pilot project on 46 tube-wells with financial assistance from UNICEF and technical support from University of Engineering Technology Peshawar (UET).

Although a time-consuming project, the company will install the system on all of 550 tube-wells gradually after success of the existing system.

The installation of the devices will give WSSP accurate data on electrical and water supply parameters. The data is being saved through a website and a monitoring dashboard. It will help WSSP measure GSM or mobile SIM the electricity consumption of each tube-well and quantity of water it pumps into water supply system.

WSSP can also ascertain if a tube-well’s water production capacity is increasing or decreasing, enabling the company to devise long-term plan on basis of that data in future. The company has also installed devices on tube-wells that automatically take samples from water and test its quality.

The system will also help the company to improve its services. Planning Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting Department of WSSP is supervising the project.

The department has also installed automatic water quality sensors on six tube-wells on experimental basis.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 27^th, 2023.