{"id":41743,"date":"2018-08-31T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=41743"},"modified":"2018-08-31T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T04:29:56","slug":"mci-to-take-action-against-illegal-water-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mci-to-take-action-against-illegal-water-connections.html","title":{"rendered":"MCI to take action against illegal water connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Metropolitan Corporation of Islamabad (MCI) has decided to launch a crackdown against illegal water connections in the city as a measure for reducing water shortage, stated a news report. This statement has come from the Mayor Islamabad Sheikh Anser Aziz who presided over the MCI meeting held at Pak-China Friendship Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Metropolitan Officer (CMO) Syed Najaf Iqbal admitted that the city has various illegal water connections and said that 47% of the total water supply doesn\u2019t even meet residents because of water leakage and theft. He also asked that the old water lines be repaired.<\/p>\n<p>Aziz informed that the water level in Simly Dam has increased substantially because of rains and that water supply from Simly Dam has been increased to 30 Millions of Gallons per Day (MGD) to 24 MGD. He also informed of his plans of asking the government for funds so all activities can be carried out smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Metropolitan Corporation of Islamabad (MCI) has decided to launch a crackdown against illegal water connections in the city as a measure for reducing water shortage, stated a news report. This statement has come from the Mayor Islamabad Sheikh Anser Aziz who presided over the MCI meeting held at Pak-China Friendship Centre. The Chief Metropolitan Officer (CMO) Syed Najaf Iqbal admitted that the city has various illegal water connections and said that 47% of the total water supply doesn\u2019t even meet residents because of water leakage and theft. He also asked that the old water lines be repaired. Aziz informed that the water level in Simly Dam has increased substantially because of rains and that water supply from Simly Dam has been increased to 30 Millions of Gallons per Day (MGD) to 24 MGD. He also informed of his plans of asking the government for funds so all activities can be carried out smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":34261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8038,6178],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-cmo","8":"tag-mci"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MCI to take action against illegal water connections - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Metropolitan Corporation of Islamabad (MCI) has decided to launch a crackdown against illegal water connections in the city as a measure\" \/>\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\/mci-to-take-action-against-illegal-water-connections.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MCI to take action against illegal water connections - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Metropolitan Corporation of Islamabad (MCI) has decided to launch a crackdown against illegal water connections in the city as a measure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mci-to-take-action-against-illegal-water-connections.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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