{"id":79441,"date":"2021-09-12T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=79441"},"modified":"2021-09-15T15:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T10:28:49","slug":"minister-wasa-disconnect-illegal-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/minister-wasa-disconnect-illegal-connections.html","title":{"rendered":"WASA Lahore directed to disconnect illegal water connections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: Punjab Housing Minister Asad Khokhar on Monday has instructed the management of the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) operating in various cities to disconnect illegal water and sewerage connections, news sources reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-lahore-mardan-partnership-programme.html\">WASA Lah<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-lahore-mardan-partnership-programme.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">o<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-lahore-mardan-partnership-programme.html\">re, Mardan to get 7.1m Euro funds under EU partnership programme<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Khokar issued these directives while presiding over a meeting of the chairmen and delegates of the WASAs and Punjab Horticulture Authority (PHA) of all the province&#8217;s major cities. He encouraged the participants to develop strategies and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-rawalpindi-exceeds-revenue-fy-2020-21.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"79026\" target=\"_blank\">solutions to address their revenue gap<\/a> and focus more attention on meeting their goals.&nbsp; He also asked that the officials develop strategies to restore subsurface water resources and construct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-danish-firm-water-treatment-plant.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"78284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">water treatment plants<\/a> in order to save water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/work-cities-development-programme-phase-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Work on PKR 44 bn Cities Development Programme Phase 1 nearing completion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, the minister stated that no defaulter would be spared under any circumstances and urged the authorities not to tolerate undue pressure in the implementation of policies. Moreover, PHA Lahore Director General Jawad Ahmad Qureshi briefed the meeting that the authority has distributed 90,000 samplings among Lahore citizens during the plantation drive. He also said that geotagging and remote sensing are being employed to monitor the urban plantation campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Punjab Housing Minister Asad Khokhar on Monday has instructed the management of the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) operating in various cities to disconnect illegal water and sewerage connections, news sources reported.&nbsp; Read: WASA Lahore, Mardan to get 7.1m Euro funds under EU partnership programme Minister Khokar issued these directives while presiding over a meeting of the chairmen and delegates of the WASAs and Punjab Horticulture Authority (PHA) of all the province&#8217;s major cities. He encouraged the participants to develop strategies and solutions to address their revenue gap and focus more attention on meeting their goals.&nbsp; He also asked that the officials develop strategies to restore subsurface water resources and construct water treatment plants in order to save water. Read: Work on PKR 44 bn Cities Development Programme Phase 1 nearing completion Similarly, the minister stated that no defaulter would be spared under any circumstances and urged the authorities not to tolerate undue pressure in the implementation of policies. Moreover, PHA Lahore Director General Jawad Ahmad Qureshi briefed the meeting that the authority has distributed 90,000 samplings among Lahore citizens during the plantation drive. He also said that geotagging and remote sensing are being employed to monitor the urban&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":65348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15015],"tags":[5665,47992,251],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-taxation","8":"tag-illegal-water-connections-and-boring-pumps-to-be-disconnected","9":"tag-minister-directs-wasa-to-disconnect-illegal-water-connections","10":"tag-wasa","11":"cat-15015-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WASA to disconnect illegal water connections- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: Punjab Housing Minister Asad Khokhar on Monday has instructed the management of the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) operating in various cities\" \/>\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\/minister-wasa-disconnect-illegal-connections.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WASA to disconnect illegal water connections- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: Punjab Housing Minister Asad Khokhar on Monday has instructed the management of the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) operating in various cities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/minister-wasa-disconnect-illegal-connections.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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