Rawalpindi: The government plans to revive a 13-year-old water scheme in a bid to tackle the depleting water table in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad – a news source reported.
Work on the project to acquire water from Ghazi-Barotha will begin in the next fiscal year. This initiative was expected to be completed at a cost of PKR 17 billion when it was first planned in 2006. The project will now cost around PKR 85 billion.
The authorities had planned to initiate the project in March 2009. Under the ensuing timeline, it would have been completed by 2013. Now, it will commence in three phases.
A 60-kilometre-long, eighty-inch-wide pipeline will be installed to collect water from Tarbela, and supply it to a water treatment plant at Sangjiani. The twin cities will be provided over 200 million gallons of water every day.
In the second phase, an additional 200 million gallons will be collected; with this supply-volume increased to 255 million gallons in the third phase. Overall, the pipeline will supply 650 million of gallons of water per day to the residents of the twin cities.
