Chairman WAPDA on Thursday said that the K-IV water supply p
roject for Karachi will be completed by 2023.
Chairman Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), Lt. Gen. (retd) Muzammil Hussain was speaking in a ceremony of signing four agreements with reg
ard to Greater Karachi Bulk Water Supply Scheme, commonly known as K
-IV.
The meeting was also attended by state minister Farrukh Habib and Austrian ambassador in Islamabad.
“The citizens of Karachi facing shortage of clean drinking water, there was a need of 1,300mgd water for the city,” chairman Wapda said.
“The federal government want to complete the p
roject at its earliest,” Wapda chief said. “We will complete the K-IV water supply p
roject and will supply water to the city in bulk by the year 2023,” Gen. Muzammil said.
P
roject Director K-IV Amir Mughal said that 15 companies had e
xpressed interest in the p
roject. “The Wapda has entrusted design consultancy of the p
roject to ILF Austria and two Pakistani companies,” he said.
“The p
roject’s design consultancy cost is Rs. 1.14 billion,” he further said.
The K-IV would provide a
n additional supply of 650 MGD to bridge the deficit of water supply in Karachi, he added.
The K-IV p
roject was initiated in 2007 and Rs25 billion was approved for its phase-I later the Wapda had taken over the p
roject on the intervention of the federal government.
The crucial water supply p
roject for the largest city of Pakistan has been pending for last several years.
