On Sunday, PM Imran Khan lauds Punjab Govt as Lahore’s underground water stops falling after 1980.
He said, “Our water conservation policies showing results-Usman Buzdar-led government has stopped fall in Lahore’s groundwater for the first time since 1980 thru effective water recycling policies, new aquifer charges, underground rain storage, timed well pumping, and other targeted actions.”
The prime minister also revealed figures showing Lahore’s minimum water level at 5.7 meters and maximum 15.96 meters in 1980 that fell to 8.18 meters minimum and 23.33 maximum in 1990 and further to 11.94 meters and 32 meters in 2000. Getting beyond fell to the minimum level of 22.8 meters and maximum to 48.4 meters in 2017, the city’s underground water stopped draining in 2018. It now stands at 23 meters minimum and 50 meters maximum since the previous two years.
As per the news, the Punjab government in July last year extends its underground rainwater storage capacity project to other cities of the province after Lahore.
CM Usman Buzdar declared that they will begin rainwater storage projects in the big cities of Punjab and they will use the resources in agriculture.
The CM said an underground reservoir with capacity storage of 1.4 million gallons of water has been manufactured in Lahore. A new sewage system line will be built from Latex Colony to Gulshan-i-Ravi. And it is built on the designs of UK and Japan reservoirs.
