{"id":67058,"date":"2020-06-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=67058"},"modified":"2020-06-23T18:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:05:45","slug":"epa-takes-up-task-purify-islamabads-environment-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/epa-takes-up-task-purify-islamabads-environment-water.html","title":{"rendered":"EPA takes up task to purify Islamabad&#8217;s environment, water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced its decision to purify Islamabad\u2019s environment and water, a news source reported. In the regard, EPA will set up environment cleansing and water purification units in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/smart-lockdown-imposed-number-islamabad-sectors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Smart lockdown imposed in a number of Islamabad sectors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EPA expects to complete the project within three years and carry it out solely itself. The department\u2019s chairing lady Farzana Altaf stated that the environment-cleansing unit would mitigate the effects of harm caused by chemicals in the atmosphere. She added that similarly the water purification unit would regulate the cleansing of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/tors-devised-for-islamabads-environmental-protection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TORs devised for Islamabad\u2019s environmental protection<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, the government has not launched any new scheme for the environmental sector in the new financial year. It allocated PKR 5 billion for the six ongoing climate related projects under the Public Sector Development Project (PSDP). The government would spend PKR 4.9 billion on Tsunami Tree Project and PKR 100 million on other initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced its decision to purify Islamabad\u2019s environment and water, a news source reported. In the regard, EPA will set up environment cleansing and water purification units in the city. Read: Smart lockdown imposed in a number of Islamabad sectors The EPA expects to complete the project within three years and carry it out solely itself. The department\u2019s chairing lady Farzana Altaf stated that the environment-cleansing unit would mitigate the effects of harm caused by chemicals in the atmosphere. She added that similarly the water purification unit would regulate the cleansing of water. Read: TORs devised for Islamabad\u2019s environmental protection On the other hand, the government has not launched any new scheme for the environmental sector in the new financial year. It allocated PKR 5 billion for the six ongoing climate related projects under the Public Sector Development Project (PSDP). The government would spend PKR 4.9 billion on Tsunami Tree Project and PKR 100 million on other initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":66506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181,20385],"tags":[32664,5586],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"category-development-projects","9":"tag-details-on-epa-takes-up-task-to-purify-islamabads-environment","10":"tag-water","11":"cat-15181-id","12":"cat-20385-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EPA takes up task to purify Islamabad&#039;s environment, water - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced its decision to purify Islamabad\u2019s environment and water, a news source reported.\" \/>\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\/epa-takes-up-task-purify-islamabads-environment-water.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPA takes up task to purify Islamabad&#039;s environment, water - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced its decision to purify Islamabad\u2019s environment and water, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/epa-takes-up-task-purify-islamabads-environment-water.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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