Turning Karachi’s wastewater into a water resource: Bilawal opens TP-1

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday inaugurated the first phase of a landmark wastewater treatment and reuse project in Karachi, launching a 35-million-gallon-per-day (MGD) facility designed to supply recycled water to industries while freeing an equivalent quantity of freshwater for domestic consumption in the water-starved metropolis.The Karachi Industrial Water Park, also known as Treatment Plant-I (TP-1), at Haroonabad is being developed under the Greater Karachi Sewerage Plan and is planned to have a total treatment capacity of 100 MGD. Its second phase, involving an additional…

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