Govt's water conservation policies producing results: PM Imran
Last updated on: 20 June,2021 01:36 pm
Government has stopped fall in Lahore's groundwater for the first time since 1980: PM
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said that water conservation policies of the government are now producing results.
In a post on social-networking website Twitter, the prime minister praised Punjab government and said that Usman Buzdar-led provincial government has stopped fall in Lahore’s groundwater for the first time since 1980.
The premier added that this was achieved through effective water recycling policies, new aquifer charges, underground rain storage, timed well pumping and other targeted actions.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) June 20, 2021
The prime minister also shared the statistics showing Lahore’s minimum water level at 5.7 meters and maximum 15.96 meters in 1980 which fell to 8.18m minimum and 23.33 maximum in 1990 and further to 11.94m and 32m in 2000.
Having further dropped the minimum level to 22.8m and maximum to 48.4m in 2017, the city’s water table stopped depleting since 2018 which currently stood at 23m minimum and 50m maximum since last two years.