ISLAMABAD: The government is taking practical steps
to ensure provision of clean drinking water to the people in Balochistan.
According to a report citing an official of Engineering Depa
rtment Quetta, Rs 3.9 billion have been allocated in the budget for construction of new water supply schemes in urban as well as rural areas.
He said more than
four hundred old and non-operational water supply schemes have been upgra
ded and made operational. The official said construction work on six water stor
age dams and fifty filtration plants is also in progress at full pace.
Moreover, five hundred water supply tube wells are being installed with solar power generation systems at a cost of Rs 2.5 billion.
