ISLAMABAD: Phase I of the Greater Karachi Bulk Water Supply Scheme (K-IV Project) is scheduled to be completed in October 2024.
The federal government has tasked the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) to construct Phase 1 of this important project, sources told APP here.
The project envisages supplying 650 million gallons of water per day (MGD) to Karachi from Keenjhar Lake located in the Thatta District of Sindh Province, they said.
Currently, construction work was being carried out on the project, they said.
The total length of K-IV is 121 kilometers while the total length of the intake channel is 0.61 km. The approved PC-1 of the project is Rs 126,000 million while a sum of Rs 20,000 million has been allocated in the PSDP for the year 2022-23.PC-I for K IV (Phase-I) 260 MGD approved in 2014 by ECNEC to be executed through KW&SB for Open Channel Conveyance System with limited scope.
It should be noted that parts of Karachi including some posh areas of the port city have been facing acute water shortages for a long time and people living there are compelled to buy tanker water at high prices.
