{"id":103509,"date":"2025-10-03T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=103509"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:20:33","slug":"hudyara-drain-clean-up-with-floating-wetlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/hudyara-drain-clean-up-with-floating-wetlands.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab, UNICEF to clean Hudyara drain with floating wetlands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Punjab Municipal Development Fund Company (PMDFC), in collaboration with UNICEF and the University of Lahore, on Tuesday launched the Hudyara drain revitalisation project to tackle water pollution and improve environmental conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative was inaugurated by Local Government Secretary Shakeel Ahmad Mian and PMDFC Managing Director Zahid Aziz. Under the project, floating wetlands will be installed along a 500-metre stretch of the drain at a cost of PKR 14.6 million. Using specific aquatic plants for natural purification, the wetlands aim to reduce odor, filter pollutants, and enhance underground water quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/no-sewage-in-ravi-water-plan-targets-full-reuse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No more sewage in Ravi: Punjab\u2019s water plan targets full reuse<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials said an additional 500 metres will be added in the next phase, with plans to eventually extend the project to 10 kilometres. An advanced digital water testing system will also be deployed to monitor quality and ensure transparency in results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts from the National Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), including Dr Afzal, briefed participants on the ecological and health benefits of the system. Representatives from UNICEF, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Punjab, and the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) lauded the initiative as a model that can be replicated in other polluted drains across the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab Municipal Development Fund Company (PMDFC), in collaboration with UNICEF and the University of Lahore, on Tuesday launched the Hudyara drain revitalisation project to tackle water pollution and improve environmental conditions. The initiative was inaugurated by Local Government Secretary Shakeel Ahmad Mian and PMDFC Managing Director Zahid Aziz. Under the project, floating wetlands will be installed along a 500-metre stretch of the drain at a cost of PKR 14.6 million. Using specific aquatic plants for natural purification, the wetlands aim to reduce odor, filter pollutants, and enhance underground water quality. Read: No more sewage in Ravi: Punjab\u2019s water plan targets full reuse Officials said an additional 500 metres will be added in the next phase, with plans to eventually extend the project to 10 kilometres. An advanced digital water testing system will also be deployed to monitor quality and ensure transparency in results. Experts from the National Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), including Dr Afzal, briefed participants on the ecological and health benefits of the system. Representatives from UNICEF, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Punjab, and the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) lauded the initiative as a model that can be replicated in other polluted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":103510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[68499,63484,68493,68492,1397,68498,63022,68496,60120,5512,68497,68494,68495],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ecological-benefits","9":"tag-epa-punjab","10":"tag-floating-wetlands","11":"tag-hudyara-drain","12":"tag-lahore-news","13":"tag-natural-purification","14":"tag-pmdfc","15":"tag-punjab-environment","16":"tag-sustainable-development","17":"tag-unicef","18":"tag-university-of-lahore","19":"tag-water-pollution-control","20":"tag-water-quality-monitoring","21":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hudyara drain clean up with floating wetlands - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Using specific aquatic plants for natural purification, the wetlands aim to reduce odor, filter pollutants, and enhance underground...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/hudyara-drain-clean-up-with-floating-wetlands.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hudyara drain clean up with floating wetlands - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Using specific aquatic plants for natural purification, the wetlands aim to reduce odor, filter pollutants, and enhance underground...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/hudyara-drain-clean-up-with-floating-wetlands.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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