Tag: Drinking

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has failed to provide clean drinking water to the capital city as a result of which waterborne diseases are...

Chairman of district advisory development committee Mian Nisar Gul inaugurated the drinking water supply scheme for Mardan Khel and Halala on Friday and informed...

Top Bollywood actor Imran Khan said Friday he would challenge in court a decision to raise the age for buying alcohol in India's entertainment...

The provision of clean drinking water is one of the priorities of the Sindh government and solid steps are being taken for this purpose,...

The Punjab government is freezing the Clean Drinking Water for All (CDWA) project designed to install 3,494 water filtration plants, a brainchild of former...

ISLAMABAD - The federal government on Tuesday passed the buck to the provinces on the issue of provision of safe drinking water to the people across country, with PPP chief whip and Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khurshid Shah calling for a unanimous resolution by the National Assembly to the provincial governments to ensure safe drinking water provision to their people. Responding to a calling attention notice raised by PML-Q members Riaz Hussain Pirzada, Sardar Bahadur Seeher

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) chief justice (CJ) on Tuesday sought a report from the Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) managing director (MD) for May 3 in a suo motu case and identical writ petitions against presence of arsenic in the tube-wells of the city. On earlier orders by the court, WASA managing director was expected to submit a reply and detailed report on Tuesday, however it was not carried out. Upon this, LHC Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry passed fresh

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has called for the inclusion of legislators to mature the Punjab Drinking Water Policy, further delaying its implementation, amidst alarming levels of water pollution in the province.
The first ever Punjab Drinking Water Policy, which has been pending over the last six months, is supposed to regulate quantity and quality of drinking water by addressing the institutional, administrative, legal, regulatory, fiscal, social and

ISLAMABAD - The fast pace of urbanisation is a big challenge for the provision of safe drinking water in Pakistan thus the country is confronting serious challenge of depleting water resources.
Environment Director General Javaid Ali Khan said this while addressing a national workshop to commemorate World Water Day. The workshop was organised by the Ministry of Environment in collaboration with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), UN Habitat, Pakistan Institute for

FAISALABAD - A drink party ended in nightmare when a man died and his brother and friend were taken to a hospital in serious condition after drinking poisonous liquor. Reportedly, two brothers Ashiq Hussain and Kashif Hussain, residents of Chak No 68 JB, and their friend Muhammad Boota from the same village arranged a drink party at their Dera.
They consumed an overdose of home-made liquor and slipped into coma after which they were taken to a hospital where Ashiq Hussain died

ISLAMABAD - Because of ill planning and coordination among the concerned official quarters, Clean Drinking Water for All (CDWA) Programme has failed to achieve its objectives of improving the quality of drinking water by building countrywide water treatment facilities and hence millions of rupees earmarked for the project were lost.
This project, started by the Ministry of Environment, was prepared at cost Rs 7871.74 million and was cleared by ECNEC in April 2006. Later the