The foundation has set up four filtrations plants in Jhelum for flood victims and three in Daadu, says Rehman. PHOTO: FILE
The Islamic Help Foundation on Thursday announced plans for construction of five water filtration plants in the Punjab and five in Sindh.
CEO Allama Muhammad Khalilur Rehman told The Express Tribune that the cost of the project was estimated to be Rs42 million.
He said scarcity of safe drinking water had become a problem. He said people in flood-hit areas suffered the most because of it.
“The severity of the problem is graver than surveys taken by the government indicate,” he said.
He said the foundation had set up four filtrations plants in Jhelum for flood victims and three in Daadu.
He said construction of two more plants in Sindh was underway.
He said rehabilitation efforts by the government had focused on short-term relief. He said the government did not have a permanent rehabilitation plan. He said the government needed to focus on the provision of durable facilities.
Islamic Help Foundation Media Coordinator Javed Ambar told The Express Tribune that the organisation aimed to construct 70 filtration plants in rural areas of south Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pukhtunkhwa.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 4th, 2013.
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