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The Sindh Irrigation and Power Department said on Thursday that there would be a considerable shortage of water in the province due to low flows in the rivers. Sindh was getting only 20,400 cusec water as on Feb 28 as against its share of 37,500 cusec, thus the shortage had reached 45 per cent, said an official handout. To face the situation, the department has taken different measures to maintain supply of drinking water and allowed water flows for drinking purposes in Phuleli and Pinyari Canals. Supplies to Guddu Barrage canals and Sukkur Barrage canals would be reduced to 15,000 cusec and supplies to Kotri Barrage canals would be enhanced to 3,000 cusec to cater to drinking water requirements, which stood at 42 per cent, the handout said. The department would enforce intensive rotation of canal flows and the direct chief engineers and managing director of SIDA to announce rotation programme according to the availability. This intensive rotation programme would be enforced from March 1, 2008. The handout said that the department was taking the steps to judiciously share water to and control theft of water. It advised the farmers and all other people using irrigation water to use the available water carefully to avert losses.
<b>Sindh HC wants details of toxic dumping case</b> On January 17, 2007, Pakistan's Sindh High Court directed the senior superintendent of police (SSP) to submit details of the FIR in the toxic dum
Alternate Energy Development Board (AEDB) Chairman Muhammad Yousuf Memon has said the government is actively considering proposals to address the problems of the people of desert areas of Sindh. Memon, talking to people during his visit to different villages of Tharparkar district, said the issues to be addressed would particularly included provision for energy and safe water, according to a press release issued here on Friday. The prime objective of the government, he said, was to provide all facilities to the people of the desert as well as remote parts of the country.
Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad has directed that the allotment leases of wind energy companies should be cancelled if they violate their agreements in any way.
Orders were issued on Tuesday for the initiation of legal action against some 25 tanneries which are not treating their effluents before discharge. The director-general of the Sindh Environmental Protection Authority (Sepa), Dr Mohammed Ali Shaikh, issued these directives in accordance with the provisions of the Pakistan Environmental Act 1997, during a visit to the Combined Effluent Treatment Plant which operates in the Korangi Industrial Area under the aegis of the Pakistan Tanners' Association (PTA).
KARACHI: Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister Sharmila Farooqui on Sunday asked leaders of environment, social and community people organisations including International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and WWF-Pakistan to start new projects in collaboration with the Sindh government, particularly the Environment Department, based on mutual faith to save Karachi beaches and seawater from polluti
Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri has said that the government will soon announce a policy for pollution control and energy conservation. She was speaking at a recently held Earth Day Carnival, jointly organised by Promoloon and UHU at Sindbad Kids park in connection with World Environment Day. Social Welfare Minister Begum N D Khan, was also present on the occasion. Shazia Marri underlined the need for a joint struggle to solving these problems which were the outcome of population explosion in the country.
The Private Power Infrastructure Board (PPIB) has barred the Sindh government from entering into any joint venture with investors for a 1000 MW coal-fired power plant without prior consultation with the power purchaser, well-placed sources told Business Recorder.
The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) is planning to establish 16 new grids stations in different parts of Sindh so as to ensure uninterrupted power supply to consumers, said the Chief Executive Officer of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company, Guftar Anjum.
