Wasa fails to ensure clean water

LAHORE - As Wasa is yet to come up with an appropriate plan to provide clean water to Lahorites, water-born diseases especially gastroenteritis are likely to break out in the City. It is feared that if Wasa continues to overlook fractional increase in gastro, situation can go out of control.

It is irony that every year on the arrival of monsoon water-born diseases play havoc with the lives of people specially children, but Wasa authorities remain unsuccessful to coop with the situation. As mixing of contaminated water from worn out sewerage pipelines into rusty water pipes is regarded as main reason of gastro which aggravates during monsoon, Wasa had planned to replace 706 kilometres long rusty water pipes with high-density long-lasting poly-ethylene pipes costing a total of Rs1.3 billion.

Since the plan dashed to ground, problem of mix-up of drinking water with waste material remained unchecked, making thousands of people who use this piped water exposed to numerous water related diseases.