City starts getting 45mgd from Hub Dam

Karachi 

Parts of the city were supplied with 45 million gallons of water from the Hub Dam on Thursday to help overcome the persisting water shortage.

The city will be provided with 45mgd from the Hub Dam for the next few days, for the Karachi Water & Sewerage Board started experimental water pumping by centrifugal pumps.

Talking to The News, Sind Minister for Local Government Jam Khan Shoro said that the development was part of an effort to ease the acute water shortage in Karachi and “this experiment was successful and now we will continue to pump water” to the city.

KWSB Managing Director Misbahuddin Farid said that since long his department had been trying to get water from the dam.

“There are few diesel pumps and now 10 electrical heavy pumps will be installed to get more water,” he said.

Farid said that as the Hub Dam had gone dry, the leftover water would be supplied to the city.

Karachi is being supplied with 550mgd against its requirement of 1,100mgd.

Recent monsoon rains have added two feet of water to the dam, but the water level in it remains below the dead level. As a result, the water shortage in District West is being partly overcome by diverting the supply to District Central.

Azam Khan, head of the special project under which the water utility has been trying to pump water from the dead level of the dam, recently said that the catchment area of the dam had received a good amount of rain but not enough to raise even two feet of water.