{"id":52020,"date":"2019-05-11T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=52020"},"modified":"2019-05-10T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:19:19","slug":"water-act-irrigation-dept-told-to-seek-stakeholders-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/water-act-irrigation-dept-told-to-seek-stakeholders-input.html","title":{"rendered":"Water Act: Irrigation Dept told to seek stakeholders&#8217; input"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday directed the provincial irrigation secretary to seek suggestions from the relevant stakeholders on the draft of Punjab Water Act 2019, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-asks-government-to-improve-national-water-management-system.html\">WB asks government to improve national water management system<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assistant Advocate Rai Shahid Saleem informed the court that the chief secretary had tasked a committee with reviewing said draft. The committee members later forwarded the draft to the provincial cabinet which subsequently approved it.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Justice Hassan said that a water policy is needed to address wastage of groundwater in the province. He added that efforts must be made to create a water-secure Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>He directed the secretary to seek suggestions from concerned citizens, the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA), the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), cooperative housing societies, and fertiliser companies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-pak-e-aab-authority-formed-to-provide-drinking-water.html\">Punjab Pak-e-Aab Authority formed to provide drinking water<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the judge directed the law officer to provide copies of the Punjab Water Policy 2018 and draft of Punjab Water Act 2019 to the petitioners and all stakeholders within two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday directed the provincial irrigation secretary to seek suggestions from the relevant stakeholders on the draft of Punjab Water Act 2019, a news source reported. Read: WB asks government to improve national water management system Assistant Advocate Rai Shahid Saleem informed the court that the chief secretary had tasked a committee with reviewing said draft. The committee members later forwarded the draft to the provincial cabinet which subsequently approved it. In response, Justice Hassan said that a water policy is needed to address wastage of groundwater in the province. He added that efforts must be made to create a water-secure Pakistan. He directed the secretary to seek suggestions from concerned citizens, the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA), the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), cooperative housing societies, and fertiliser companies. Read: Punjab Pak-e-Aab Authority formed to provide drinking water Moreover, the judge directed the law officer to provide copies of the Punjab Water Policy 2018 and draft of Punjab Water Act 2019 to the petitioners and all stakeholders within two days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":48961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11606],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-water-act-irrigation-dept-told-to-seek-stakeholders-input"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Water Act: Irrigation Dept told to seek stakeholders&#039; input - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday directed the provincial irrigation secretary to seek suggestions from the relevant stakeholders on the\" \/>\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\/water-act-irrigation-dept-told-to-seek-stakeholders-input.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Water Act: Irrigation Dept told to seek stakeholders&#039; 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