Overview
- Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi chaired a high-level meeting that adopted an emergency-action plan and ordered a strict crackdown on water theft and misuse of connections.
- Authorities approved the Dotara and Shahdara dams as priority projects with an intended delivery horizon of about two years, with WAPDA and the CDA directed to fast-track detailed feasibility work within two months.
- Conflicting figures were reported for Dotara’s capacity, with government materials citing 110 MGD while another estimate puts supply at 72 mgd with a tentative construction cost of roughly Rs40 billion excluding land.
- Shahdara was cleared as a smaller Margalla Hills project expected to supply about 10 mgd at an estimated cost of Rs4 billion.
- Officials highlighted Islamabad’s supply gap of roughly 70 mgd against demand near 220 mgd and called for leak control, pipeline replacement, and joint federal–Punjab financing to support delivery.