| ISLAMABAD: While multi-billion development projects are under construction in the capital, the most important issue of water seems to have been put on the back burner.
Islamabad is a water scarce city mainly because of the rapid growth in its population due to urbanisation and migration of people from other parts of the country. During the last over two decades, no new source of water has been explored to bridge the growing gap between demand and supply.
Though several announcements were made in the past to start projects such as construction of the proposed Chirrah, Shahdara, Chinyot dams, extension of Khanpur Dam and above all the Ghazi Barotha project to bring water from Indus River, but the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and successive governments could not translate the announcements into reality. |
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