Tag: Water
Islamabad, Delhi race to tap water in disputed Kashmir
MUZAFFARABAD: Several hundred metres underground, thousands of labourers grind away day and night on a mammoth hydroelectric project in contested Kashmir, where India and...
SC directs closure of illegal hydrants in Karachi
KARACHI: The Supreme Court (SC) rejected on Thursday appeals filed by operators of private water hydrants established without a legal cover in Karachi.
Headed by...
SC admonishes Sindh govt for failure to provide clean drinking water
KARACHI: While hearing a constitutional petition of lawyer Shahab Usto, the Supreme Court received and questioned Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, former Karachi mayor...
Reducing water’s heavy burden off Kohistani women’s shoulders
By Pooja Dawani
Most of the time we take the running water in our homes and surroundings for granted. We are so accustomed to not...
NA standing committee recommends against initiating new water, energy projects till...
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Water Resources recommended on Thursday that the Ministry of Water Resources should not initiate new projects before it...
20k electricity-deprived schools to be given solar energy: CM
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that under the "Khadim-e-Punjab Ujala Program", shifting of 20,000 electricity-deprived schools to solar energy must be implemented...
CM addresses Chinese companies in textile, water sector in Beijing via...
Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif addressed the heads of the Chinese companies in textile sector and members of a delegation from Punjab through...
Minister for increasing storage capacity to avert water crisis
Federal Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Muhammad Asif has said that water crisis is looming over Pakistan if solid steps are not taken...
Millions drinking arsenic-laced water in Bangladesh
Twenty million poor Bangladeshis are still drinking water contaminated with arsenic, two decades after the potentially deadly toxin was discovered in the supply, Human...
Millions drinking arsenic-laced water in Bangladesh
Twenty million poor Bangladeshis are still drinking water contaminated with arsenic, two decades after the potentially deadly toxin was discovered in the supply, Human...
WAPDA, Agriculture University ink MoU for water management
Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Agriculture (UoA) Faisalabad for working together...
CM asks PHE dept to evolve maintenance of water, sanitation schemes
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed Public Health Engineering (PHE) & Rural Development Department (RDD) to convert their water supply schemes...
Danish solutions for Pakistan’s water challenges
Pakistan with its 200 million inhabitants is experiencing rapid urbanisation and industrial development. Its population is facing a water challenge. Currently, it is the...
Water from Manchar Lake suspended as scale of toxicity rises
As the scale of toxicity rises in the Manchar Lake, one of the biggest lakes in Asia located near Sehwan in Jamshoro district, the...
WASA needs 600,000 meters to regularise water connections
The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Lahore needs as many as 600,000 new meters across the provincial capital to regularise water connection and overcome...
Evidence of flowing liquid water on Mars: NASA
Liquid water has been observed on the planet Mars, the US space agency NASA said Monday.
“Mars is not the dry, arid planet we thought...
Reduced river inflows: IRSA cuts Punjab’s water share
Indus River System Authority (IRSA) on Thursday reduced 19,400 cusecs water from River Indus and ordered to close Chashma, Jhelum Link and Taunsa Panjnad...
