Observer Report
Islamabad
Country Director Helping Hand for Relief and Development Saleem Mansoori has said that Water for Life (WFL) Programme of HHRD is
working for providing clean drinking water to one million needy people across Pakistan.
Talking during a briefing held here, he said the programme was initiated after conducting a national level water conference on “Save Water, Save Life”. Some 2,100 projects have been successfully completed under ‘Water for Life’ Program and one million deserving and needy people are benefiting from these projects in remote areas of Pakistan, mostly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
He mentioned that the WFL programme is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goal of UN directly and this programme provides sustainable drinking water solutions to deprived communities who have limited access to clean drinking water.
Mansoori said HHRD approved 643 projects for all the provinces of Pakistan including Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan during last year including some 222 clean water projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 145 in Balochistan, 112 in Punjab, 106 in Sindh, 52 in Azad Kashmir, and 6 in Gilgit.
He said that these water projects 282 hand pumps, 150 submersible pumps with water storage tank, 63 gravity water supply schemes, 6 reverse osmosis and ultra-filtration treatment plants, as an innovative project 56 solar powered drinking water solution and 86 water wells has been completed in deprived areas of the country.
