Lahore: The solid waste management and water stocktake took place in Lahore on Wednesday, according to a news report. It was discussed in this stocktake that the Punjab Government launched the clean water roadmap in 2015 for improving water quality and ensuring that 110 million citizens had access to safe and drinkable water.
In the urban sector, seven waste management companies are undertaking waste collection in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Multan, and Bahawalpur. Operations of all these seven companies are to be outsourced to international private companies for better functioning. The Lahore and Multan companies also have landfill sites, and for the rest, landfill sited are underway, with temporary sites being used in the meanwhile.
