KARACHI (March 25 2009): Due to the lethargic attitude of Sindh government and rapid change of faces at the helm in Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB), the Rs 276 million project of developing four combined effluent treatment plants (ETPs) in the citys industrial areas is far from execution.

KARACHI, March 20: The city government has issued a legal notice to the Chinese contractor who was given the responsibility of collecting garbage across the city, saying that despite the passing of over a year since the signing of the initial contract no work has been done on the ground, Dawn has learnt.

The Sindh High Court asked the provincial transport department and the city district government to submit a plan for phasing out smoke-emitting, ramshackle and noisy vehicles, particularly two-stroke rickshaws, from the streets of Karachi within two months.

The $600 million Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) project of City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is in doldrums due to a lingering dispute between the provincial and city governments on the domain of the important infrastructure development project.

The programme to electrify 61 villages in Karachi has made little progress for the last four months due to the apathy of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation, villagers complain.

They point out that their villages were surveyed long ago but the officials have not prepared the estimated cost of the projects so far.

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Zardari on Friday gave the green light to the Green Karachi Project, aimed at turning hundreds of acres of wasteland in the city into parks.

President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday gave green signal to the Green Karachi Project that aims at turning hundreds of acres of wasteland in the city into lush green parks, besides massive tree plantation along 24 major roads traversing through the city and advised the government that this project be undertaken on public private partnership basis.

By Jamal Shahid

ISLAMABAD, Jan 21: Although mangroves have been declared protected forest and there is a ban on commercial harvesting, their areas in Pakistan were shrinking fast due to various biotic (living organisms) and abiotic (environmental degradation) reasons, the National Assembly was informed on Wednesday.

New York,
Asian cities from New Delhi to Beijing are getting darker, glaciers on the mighty Himalayas are melting faster and weather system is getting more extreme, a United Nations study has warned.

The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board is supplying unfit drinking water