A 72-inch diameter pipeline, providing water to Karachi from the Dhabeji pumping station, burst near the National Highway due to backpressure after a sudden power outage on the night between Friday and Saturday.
The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) chairman said this in a press release issued on Saturday.
Karachi Transport Action Committee and Anjuman-e-Ittahad Bus Malikan Karachi leaders Muhammad Ashraf Banglori, Chaudhry Mazhar Hussain, Tanzeem Khan and Nazeer Banglori have demanded of the apex court to take notice of unjustified fresh rise in oil prices by the present government.
Work on CNG buses project for the city has come to a halt, as the Ministry of Environment has delayed releasing Rs 500 million to the Karachi Mass Transit Cell (KMTC) of City District Government Karachi (CDGK) in the outgoing fiscal year.
The just out Economic Survey of Pakistan notes that although air quality in many of our cities is bad, studies conducted in Lahore and Karachi show that carbon monoxide, cadmium and lead levels in these cities far exceed the internationally accepted threshold limits. An estimated 60 to 70 percent pollution in our cities is caused by vehicular emissions.
President Asif Zardari has directed the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) to build a large sewerage dam, where industrial waste would also be collected and filtered, after which the water obtained would be used for parks and trees in the city as part of the Green City plan, Sindh Minister for Fisheries Zahid Ali Bhurgari told Daily Times.
National Forum on Environment and Health (NFEH) has expressed grave concern over the fast degradation of environment in the country especially Karachi in the past 12 years which inflicted huge losses to the economy and posed threat to resources.
The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has launched the first phase of its 180 MW, GE Jenbacher power plant, which will replace the existing 50 MW plant in SITE. The deal was signed by new management at KESC with the Austrian supplier in a ceremony in Dubai, UAE, in late 2008.
Much-needed CNG-powered buses will start plying on 40 designated routes in the city any time during the next financial year as the ground work for the launching of the scheme has been completed in all respects, according to well-placed city government officials.
