{"id":104590,"date":"2026-01-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=104590"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:37:39","slug":"work-underway-on-rainwater-harvesting-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/work-underway-on-rainwater-harvesting-tanks.html","title":{"rendered":"Work on 10 rainwater harvesting tanks in Lahore nears completion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lahore: Construction work on 10 underground rainwater harvesting tanks across Lahore has entered its final phase, with completion expected by mid-February, according to officials from the Lahore Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project, costing Rs7.7 billion, aims to harvest rainwater, mitigate urban flooding during the monsoon, and help raise the city\u2019s depleting groundwater table. Each tank, with a depth of 20 feet, will be accompanied by a recharge well to channel water from the tanks into the groundwater system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASA Managing Director Ghufran Ahmad said that partial operations of some tanks during last year\u2019s monsoon had already helped reduce water accumulation in critical areas. Once completed, the 10 tanks will have a combined storage capacity of 22 million gallons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/rainwater-management-housing-societies-rda.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rainwater management plan mandatory for housing societies\u2019 approval<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the agency, the construction progress varies across locations: the Gaddafi Stadium tank is almost complete, while the Cooper Road and Karim Park tanks are at 98% and 97% completion, respectively. Other tanks in Garden Town, Allama Iqbal Town, Waris Road, Railway Station Chowk, Tajpura, and Shama Road are between 45% and 96% complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials said the project reflects efforts to implement sustainable urban water management solutions in Lahore, with plans to construct similar storage tanks in other cities in the future to better manage rainwater and prevent urban flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Construction work on 10 underground rainwater harvesting tanks across Lahore has entered its final phase, with completion expected by mid-February, according to officials from the Lahore Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA). The project, costing Rs7.7 billion, aims to harvest rainwater, mitigate urban flooding during the monsoon, and help raise the city\u2019s depleting groundwater table. Each tank, with a depth of 20 feet, will be accompanied by a recharge well to channel water from the tanks into the groundwater system. WASA Managing Director Ghufran Ahmad said that partial operations of some tanks during last year\u2019s monsoon had already helped reduce water accumulation in critical areas. Once completed, the 10 tanks will have a combined storage capacity of 22 million gallons. Read: Rainwater management plan mandatory for housing societies\u2019 approval According to the agency, the construction progress varies across locations: the Gaddafi Stadium tank is almost complete, while the Cooper Road and Karim Park tanks are at 98% and 97% completion, respectively. Other tanks in Garden Town, Allama Iqbal Town, Waris Road, Railway Station Chowk, Tajpura, and Shama Road are between 45% and 96% complete. Officials said the project reflects efforts to implement sustainable urban water management solutions in Lahore, with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":70765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[62496,47122,39,64820,63852,48999,66758,31608,251,6337],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-104590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-developments","tag-groundwater-recharge","tag-infrastructure-development","tag-lahore","tag-monsoon-preparedness","tag-public-utilities","tag-rainwater-harvesting","tag-underground-water-tanks","tag-urban-flooding","tag-wasa","tag-water-management","cat-15016-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Work underway on rainwater harvesting tanks - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: Construction work on 10 underground rainwater harvesting tanks across Lahore has entered its final phase, with completion expected by\" \/>\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\/work-underway-on-rainwater-harvesting-tanks.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Work underway on rainwater harvesting tanks - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: Construction work on 10 underground rainwater harvesting tanks across Lahore has entered its final phase, with completion expected by\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/work-underway-on-rainwater-harvesting-tanks.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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