Revamped DWPS to lessen water crisis in Karachi, says Wahab.

KARACHI -- Dhabeji Water Pumping Station (DWPS) has been revamped and with this development Karachi would start getting required amount of water in terms of millions of gallons per day and that would lessen the water paucity gravity to a great extent.

Barrister Murtaza Wahab revealed this in a press conference he gave at Sindh Assembly Building's Media Corner, Tuesday. He is Chief Minister's adviser on law, environment and also is Sindh government's spokesman. According to Wahab, the revamped DWPS would commence a full-capacity functioning with effect from November 15th, 2019.

The adviser said that water paucity is a grave issue of serious concern for the port city and on this the incumbent Sindh government had decided to upgrade and revamp the DWPS and it is done while the existing water pumping capacity of the DWPS was 100 million gallons per day of which approximately, 25 million gallons of water was either spilt of wasted.

Dhabeji Water Pumping Station completed at cost of Rs5b

Barrister Wahab said that the revamping would ensure that the DWPS would function at its full capacity and there would be no likelihood of water wasted added the adviser to the CM. The process of revamping has been done by placing modern machinery at the Dhabeji Water Pumping Station which has cost the provincial exchequer Rs5 billion. The revamped DWPS would be inaugurated on November 5.

He also told that the provincial government has equipped the Karachi Water and...