Tag: drinking water

Govt to improve sewerage system, ensure provision of clean drinking water:...

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has said that the government is starting a new programme for improving sewerage and cleanliness system, provision...

Access to safe drinking water remains a problem: report

ISLAMABAD: Access to clean drinking water continues to be a major problem in Pakistani cities with only 65.2 percent of households in Pakistan’s ten...

CJP promises to liberate Karachi from tanker mafia

KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday pledged to cleanse the port city of the tanker mafia. While presiding over the...

PSQCA starts crackdown, seals 11 illegal bottled water companies

LAHORE: Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) has started a crackdown against illegal bottled water companies and sealed 11 plants, discarding their total...

Solar-powered machine turns urine into drinkable water

A team of scientists at a Belgian university says they have created a machine that turns urine into drinkable water and fertilizer using solar...

42 filtration plants of cantonment areas threat to citizens’ health

The rusty filters and cartridges of more than 42 water filtration plants situated in different parts of Chaklala and Rawalpindi Cantonments could not be...

Govt to ensure availability of clean drinking water: Shehbaz

Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that potable water is the basic right of every citizen and Punjab government will uphold this right....