Chinese firm proposes fixing K-IV, adding to CPEC.

KARACHI -- The Sindh government has discussed K-IV with a delegation from a Chinese state-owned company that has shown interest in working on the second and third phases of the mega project. K-IV is a plan to bring 650 million gallons a day more to Karachi from Kinjhar lake. The FWO is working on the first phase for roughly one-third of the supply. However that has taken 17 years and still is not working. The Chinese firm proposed that if the cost was too high it could be included in CPEC projects, said a press handout from CM House on October 25, 2019. The eight-member delegation from Energy China was led by its president Luo Bixiong who called on Murad Ali Shah to explore working with the Sindh government in water distribution in Karachi. K-IV has been halted temporarily to make changes in its design which was discovered to be flawed. It was designed by Osmani and Co over ten years ago.

'The national engineering firm, NESPAK, is working on its design and as soon as it is finalized, work would be started,' the chief minister said. He added that K-IV was a most important project and he would ensure its completion. 'We are working on different options to...