Governor inaugurates 50 more water filtration plants.

LAHORE -- Punjab Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar inaugurated 50 more water filtration plants, in collaboration with various non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and welfare organisations.

Addressing a ceremony in that regard here on Tuesday, he said that clean drinking water would be provided to 15 million people under the Punjab Aab-e-Pak Authority and NGOs by the end of December this year, as 1,500 water filtration plants were being installed at mosques, churches and other places across Punjab.

Provision of health and education facilities and clean drinking water was top priority of the government, he added.

The governor said the Punjab Aab-e-Pak Authority was fulfilling the promise of providing clean drinking water to the public. The Authority would ensure provision of clean drinking water to eight million people, while NGOs would provide this basic facility to seven million people by end of the year.

Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar said the filtration plants were being installed without any political discrimination in urban and...