PESHAWAR
\nCaretaker Minister for Local Government Election and Rural Development Department (LGE&RDD) Advocate Sawal Nazir on Tuesday inaugurated the first of its kind in the province Decentralized Wastewater Treatment System (Dewats).
\nWater and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) constructed the system with financial and technical assistance from UNICEF here at Wazirbagh park Peshawar. Dewats will treat sewerage water of the surrounding locality that will be used for irrigation of the park.
\nSecretary LGE&RDD Syed Zaheerul Islam, Chief Executive Officer WSSP Dr Hassan Nasir, UNICEF Country WASH chief Haile Gawsha, UNICEF Chief Field Office Peshawar Abdullahi Muhammad Yusuf, General Manager Planning, Monitoring and Reporting (PMER) Syed Zamirul Hassan and General manager (Ops) Engr Turab Shah were also present on the occasion.
\nGeneral Manager PMER briefed the minister on the overall aspects, including cost, environmental impacts and benefits of the project for the community.
\nThe minister called the project a step in the right direction that would help in conserving clean drinking water and water pollution. He added it would have a profound impact on the health and well-being of the community.
\nHe said a clean environment and access to potable water was very important for human health, lamenting that lack of wastewater treatment plants in cities was polluting fresh water resources.
\n\u201cThe government and its relevant departments are aware of the problem and several projects are underway to find a lasting solution to save fresh water resources,\u201d he said.
\nHe thanked UNICEF for its financial assistance in different areas and said continuous assistance shows the organisation\u2019s trust and confidence in the provincial government and its departments.
\nHe said the project was completed before the deadline and hoped the organization would continue funding low-cost projects with immense health and environmental impacts for the society.
\nSecretary LG Islam also thanked UNICEF for funding such projects in the province that suffered massive losses during militancy.
\nWSSP\u2019s chief executive officer shed light on the importance of the project and said WSSP was not only striving to supply clean drinking water but taking steps to conserve groundwater resources and prevent them from contamination.
\n\u201cThe project is energy-efficient and environment friendly that has been completed in collaboration with locals to inculcate a sense of ownership among them,\u201d Dr Nasir said.
\nHe also shared details of other projects completed recently for improvement in water supply system including installation of water testing devices and SCADA system on 46 tube-wells.
\nSpeaking on the occasion, UNICEF\u2019s Abdullahi said Dewats was not a big project but very significant for the city. He said completion of the project was a step towards bigger project in treating wastewater and hoped that a time was not far when the city would have so many systems.
\nThe organization has been funding various projects in Water and Sanitation sector with WSSP including replacement of water supply lines, tube-wells automation, installation of water testing devices on tube-wells and reconstruction of sewerage systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR Caretaker Minister for Local Government Election and Rural Development Department (LGE&RDD) Advocate Sawal Nazir on Tuesday inaugurated the first of its kind in the province Decentralized Wastewater Treatment System (Dewats). Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) constructed the system with financial and technical assistance from UNICEF here at Wazirbagh park Peshawar. Dewats will treat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-313837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n