The News Review:
- New water pipes before next summer, says nazim
- Water consumption for per unit of GDP to drop 30 pct
- CITY: Water supply project first instalment issued.
New water pipes before next summer, says nazim
Pakistan Dawn – May 29, 2006
com ———- –>New water pipes before next summer, says nazimDERA GHAZI KHAN, May 28: Damaged water supply lines will be replaced in the city before next summer at a cost of Rs200 million to supply clean drinking water to the people to avoid recurrence of problems like gastroenteritis. This was stated by District Nazim Sardar Maqsood Ahmad Khan Leghari during his visit to the DHQ hospital to inquire after gastroenteritis patients. He said sale of rotten and cut fruit had been banned to avoid spread of the disease. He said Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi would be requested to ensure early release of funds to replace the faulty water supply pipelines in DG Khan. District Coordination Officer Khusro Pervaiz Malik said the situation regarding gastroenteritis was not alarming and most of the people faced the problem due to change in weather and use of contaminated water at their homes.
Water consumption for per unit of GDP to drop 30 pct
chinadaily.com.cn – May 29, 2006
And the country’s freshwater resources amounts to 2,300 cubic meters per capita, only a quarter of the world’s average level. According to the outcome of China’s recent water resources assessment, total water volume of the rivers and other water sources in northern China ebbed dramatically by 12 percent while that rose by nearly five percent in southern China. In the past five years, 320 million people in China’s countryside, or 35 percent of the country’s rural residents, fail to have safe water supply and up to 385 million 25. 6 million hectares of cropland go without irrigation facilities.
CITY: Water supply project first instalment issued.
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