{"id":54140,"date":"2019-08-04T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=54140"},"modified":"2019-08-02T19:41:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T14:41:46","slug":"small-dam-to-be-built-near-northern-bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/small-dam-to-be-built-near-northern-bypass.html","title":{"rendered":"Small dam to be built near Northern Bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Sindh government plans to construct either a small dam or a storm-water drain near the Northern Bypass to give way to the incoming rainwater from the Khirthar mountain range, the Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah revealed on Thursday \u2013 according to a news source.<\/p>\n<p>A similar storm drain is also being planned in Hyderabad to protect the city from flash floods.<\/p>\n<p>The CM provided these updates in a meeting with the new British Deputy High Commissioner Mike Nithavrianakis who met Shah on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/drain-cleaning-underway-in-karachi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drain cleaning underway in Karachi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CM Shah further said that the natural waterways in both Karachi and Hyderabad had been severely encroached upon \u2013 because of which rainwater could not pass through the storm-water drains.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Northern Bypass, New Sabzi Mandi, and various societies and townships had recently emerged on the main natural drains, so the water had no way to flow down to the sea; blaming these constructions as being the major instigators behind these incidences of flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Sindh government plans to construct either a small dam or a storm-water drain near the Northern Bypass to give way to the incoming rainwater from the Khirthar mountain range, the Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah revealed on Thursday \u2013 according to a news source. A similar storm drain is also being planned in Hyderabad to protect the city from flash floods. The CM provided these updates in a meeting with the new British Deputy High Commissioner Mike Nithavrianakis who met Shah on Thursday. Read:\u00a0Drain cleaning underway in Karachi CM Shah further said that the natural waterways in both Karachi and Hyderabad had been severely encroached upon \u2013 because of which rainwater could not pass through the storm-water drains. He said that the Northern Bypass, New Sabzi Mandi, and various societies and townships had recently emerged on the main natural drains, so the water had no way to flow down to the sea; blaming these constructions as being the major instigators behind these incidences of flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":52871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12476],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-small-dam-to-be-built-near-northern-bypass"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Small dam to be built near Northern Bypass - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The Sindh government plans to construct either a small dam or a storm-water drain near the Northern Bypass to give way to the incoming rainwater\" \/>\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\/small-dam-to-be-built-near-northern-bypass.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Small dam to be built near Northern Bypass - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The Sindh government plans to construct either a small dam or a storm-water drain near the Northern Bypass to give way to the incoming rainwater\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/small-dam-to-be-built-near-northern-bypass.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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