A report evaluating whether the water supplied to denizens of Islamabad is potable or not by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) says that almost 60 per cent of filtration plants are providing unhealthy and contaminated water to citizens.
On the directions of mayor, CDA laboratory tested water samples of 11 filtration plants. According to the report, seven out of 11 filtration plants are providing contaminated water.
Report says dirty, brackish, polluted and unsafe water is being supplied from filtration plants to the residents of Ministers Enclave, G-8/1, Margalla Town, I-9/4, F-9 Park, F-10/1 and G-9/2, said CDA report.
With the formation of Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI), Islamabad mayor and CDA Chairman also came up with new promises. Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz said that to resolve water issue, water scarcity and water pilferage problem was his first priority. But unfortunately the promises proved hollow and no work on this count was initiated, he added.
Neither the top management of MCI, nor the top brass of CDA has paid any heed to resolve the issue of water and give relief to the citizens of federal capital.
Previously, according to the report of Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), there were 28 out of 33 filtration plants installed and maintained by the CDA to supply potable water to citizens in the federal capital are supplying polluted water, which is giving rise to countless water borne diseases.
According to a recent report, Pakistan suffers a loss of 16 billion dollars every year in the wastage of water. Due to lack of interest by the respective institutions, no strategy is devised to plug this enormous wastage of water and resultantly the citizens have to bear the consequences of this practice.
Dr Rana Salman, while talking to Pakistan Today said that fatal epidemics and diseases like cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A and E and typhoid, water borne diseases and gastroenteritis are caused by polluted water.
CDA spokesman told Pakistan Today that filtration plants are providing clean drinking water while water supply from seven filtration plants was declared unpleasant for health by CDA laboratory in its report. These filtration plants were rechecked by PCRWR in the preceding months and were cleared, he added.
