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The Water And Sanitation Agency (WASA) ( Urdu: ایجنسی برائے پانی اور نکاسی آب) is a Governmental body responsible for planning, designing, development and maintenance, repair and operations of water supply and sewerage and draining system, as well as collection of Aquifer Water charges. A compulsory element of this mandate is to provide a safe, reliable and efficient water supply to satisfy the demand of all government and public sectors.

History

Water And Sanitation Agency (WASA) was established by Lahore Development Authority in 1976. [1]

Structure

The Water And Sanitation Agency (WASA) is chaired [2] by the Managing Director (MD), currently WASA Lahore headed by Mr Ghufran Ahmed, he has over 30 years of experience in Operations, Public Health, Engineering & Management, and further assisted by three Deputy Managing Directors (DMDs) that are DMD (F&R) Finance, Administration and Revenue, DMD (O&M) Operation & Maintenance, and DMD (E) Engineering.

WASA Faisalabad headed by M.D Amir Aziz, M.D WASA Rawalpindi Mr Muhammad Tanver and WASA Faisalabad headed by M.D Kashan Hafeez Butt [3] headed since 2024.

Functions

Water And Sanitation Agency (WASA) is essentially responsible for Planning, Designing and Construction of Water Supply [4] for:

  • Rehabilitation of the existing Water supply System.
  • Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage.
  • Imposing fines over water wastages in Lahore [5]
  • Billing and Collection of monthly fee and Charges for the services provided to its consumer against sewerage & Water etc.
  • Undertaking Bulk Production, filtration/treatment, transmission & retail distribution purifying of water.
  • Collection, Pumping, Treatment & Disposal of Sewage & Industrial Waste Water.
  • Enforcement and taking Legal action against defaulters and unauthorized connections as per Law.
  • Billing & Collection of Aquifer Water charges from Beverages & Water Bottling plants form all over Punjab, as well as billing of Industrial units, Commercial & Corporate bodies against ground Water (Aquifer) extraction from revelent Districts, also implement the laws regarding Water Conversation as per directions of Hournable SCP & Hournable LHC further assisted by (JWEC ).
  • Long term planning and development for tapping additional water sources, Trement and diposal station for sewer water & its implementation to meet water supply and sewerage demand projected.
  • WASA also get Financial, Technical and Recerch assistance from International Banks and Organisations such as JICA, UNDP, WB, EU, AIIB, ADB, KfW Development Bank (Germany), PCCC, SPIC (China), APWASI , DAFT (Australia), DEP (USA), BWW (Hungary) , (GIZ) GmbH German development agency, Danida (DSIF) Denmark & Unicef etc. against Development Projects.

References

  1. ^ "Overview | WASA, Lahore". www.wasa.punjab.gov.pk. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  2. ^ "Our Managing Directors". www.wasa.punjab.gov.pk. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  3. ^ "WASA GUJRANWALA". www.wasag.org.pk. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  4. ^ "LDA WASA Water and Sanitation Agency Jobs 2015 NTS Test Apply Online Result". gotest.pk. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  5. ^ Report, Staff (2023-12-05). "WASA to impose heavy fines over water wastages in Lahore". Pakistan Observer. Retrieved 2024-04-01.

External links

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