{"id":60145,"date":"2020-01-21T06:39:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T06:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=60145"},"modified":"2020-01-21T06:39:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T06:39:46","slug":"water-table-lahore-dropping-alarming-level-qureshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/water-table-lahore-dropping-alarming-level-qureshi.html","title":{"rendered":"Water table in Lahore dropping at alarming level: Qureshi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: Chairman Judicial Water Commission Justice (rtd) Ali Akbar Qureshi recently announced that the city&#8217;s water table level was continuing to drop by 3ft per year; with the current level having fallen below 800 hundred feet, according to a news source. As per the publication, Qureshi made these revelations during a meeting of the water commission, where he discussed the issues affecting the water table with the government officials concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/experts-share-shocking-stats-on-lahores-underground-water-table.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Experts share shocking stats on Lahore\u2019s underground water table (opens in a new tab)\">Experts share shocking stats on Lahore\u2019s underground water table<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the meeting, the chairman summoned the representatives of 240 factories and industries that either lacked water treatment plants or released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/nespak-to-build-wastewater-treatment-plant-at-ravi-river.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"toxic water  (opens in a new tab)\">toxic water <\/a>underground. However, Mr Ali stated that only 175 representatives actually took part in the session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/recharge-unground-water-table-with-flood-rain-water-pcrwr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Recharge underground water table with flood &amp; rain water: PCRWR (opens in a new tab)\">Recharge underground water table with flood &amp; rain water: PCRWR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those factories which have not installed water treatment plants have been asked to submit an affidavit before January 24. If they fail to install the plants after the provided date then these factories will be sealed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-to-form-water-table-regulatory-authority.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Govt. to form water table regulatory authority (opens in a new tab)\">Govt. to form water table regulatory authority<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally,\nthe chairman took the opportunity to ask the common citizens to save water at\ntheir homes, and also announced that the Dolphin Force of the police would now\nbe allowed to fine those residents that were caught wasting water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Chairman Judicial Water Commission Justice (rtd) Ali Akbar Qureshi recently announced that the city&#8217;s water table level was continuing to drop by 3ft per year; with the current level having fallen below 800 hundred feet, according to a news source. As per the publication, Qureshi made these revelations during a meeting of the water commission, where he discussed the issues affecting the water table with the government officials concerned. Read: Experts share shocking stats on Lahore\u2019s underground water table After the meeting, the chairman summoned the representatives of 240 factories and industries that either lacked water treatment plants or released toxic water underground. However, Mr Ali stated that only 175 representatives actually took part in the session. Read: Recharge underground water table with flood &amp; rain water: PCRWR Those factories which have not installed water treatment plants have been asked to submit an affidavit before January 24. If they fail to install the plants after the provided date then these factories will be sealed. Read: Govt. to form water table regulatory authority Additionally, the chairman took the opportunity to ask the common citizens to save water at their homes, and also announced that the Dolphin Force of the police&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":60177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15020],"tags":[15162,15161],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-developments","8":"tag-factories","9":"tag-water-table","10":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Water table in Lahore dropping at alarming level: Qureshi - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chairman Judicial Water Commission Justice (rtd) Ali Akbar Qureshi recently announced that the city&#039;s water table level was continuing to drop 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\/water-table-lahore-dropping-alarming-level-qureshi.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Water table in Lahore dropping at alarming level: Qureshi - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chairman Judicial Water Commission Justice (rtd) Ali Akbar Qureshi recently announced that the city&#039;s water table level was continuing to drop by\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/water-table-lahore-dropping-alarming-level-qureshi.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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