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ISLAMABAD, (MANEND NEWS): Prime Minister Imran Khan has claimed on
Sunday 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.
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.