KWSB revives system to supply water to Karachi’s rural parts

The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has decided to revive its “rural area circle” to ensure the supply of proper pipelined water to the dwellers of the rural parts of Karachi under its regular network.

The decision to this effect was reached on Thursday when the Sindh local government minister chaired a meeting attended by KWSB members, including Mayor Wasim Akhtar, the managing director of the water utility and the local government secretary.

These rural areas of the city, for which this arrangement of the water utility will be revived, mainly come under the municipal jurisdiction of the district council of Karachi.

The local government minister, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, said the revival of the “rural area circle” was the good news of the year 2020 for the inhabitants of rural parts, and people of the city would receive more such good news in the current year.

The meeting was informed that terms of the contracts of the six official water supply hydrants of the KWSB would soon come to an end, and quite soon advertisements would be published in newspapers for new contracts in this regard.

The minister that all legal formalities should be fulfilled in this regard and these new contracts should be granted on basis of merit and transparency.

The meeting was also told that committees of the board of the KWSB related to the affairs of infrastructure, finance and revenue had been dissolved and new committees would be constituted comprising the board members so that these bodies could play an active role related to various aspects of the water utility.

The minister said the Sindh government had the utmost resolve to carry out projects to expand the water supply capacity of the KWSB to fulfil the water requirements of the city, and Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had been playing an active role to ensure an additional water supply to the city. He said one such major project to provide an additional bulk water supply to the city would be inaugurated by PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in the current month.