Water Investment Projects are Need of Time amid #WaterScarcity in Urban Areas: MD WASA

LAHORE: Water investment projects were the need of the hour in the prevailing scarcity of water in Pakistan, said Ghafran Ahmed, Managing Director, Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) while meeting with the delegations from International Finance Corporation and Punjab Public Private Partnership Authority. The delegation was visiting the WASA Head Office on Thursday.

WASA MD Ghafran Ahmed also said making public projects environment-friendly was the top priority of Wasa and

He said due to the rapid population growth, demand of clean drinking water and good sanitation facilities was increasing every day.

WASA will complete the waste water treatment plant with the help of international organisations. Salient features of the proposed waste water treatment plant were discussed in the meeting. WASA’s Director Planning Zeeshan Bilal gave a detailed briefing to the delegates. Sewage infrastructure and other environment-friendly public welfare projects were discussed and the cooperation of international organisations regarding the funding of the projects was declared indispensable in the meeting.

WASA MD Ghafran thanked the delegates for visiting Wasa office and expressing their interest in water-related projects.

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