Welcome Rohri City! Water Supply

     The supply of drinking water to the citizens has always been a major task for the municipality. The first arrangement for water supply was established in 1896; it was expanded in 1936. This waterworks was meant to cater to the requirements of only 50,000 people. Since the population has increased at least fivefold, the daily requirement of drinking water has also increased—about 8 million gallons per day (MGD) of water has been estimated as the present daily requirement, whereas only 4 MGD of filtered water is being supplied.
     A follow-up water supply scheme, Phase II, (Adam Shah Waterworks) was planned and designed by the Public Health Engineering Department in 1967, based on tube- wells. This, however, failed due to the presence of brackish water. In 1984-5 a new waterworks with a capacity of 3 MGD was brought into service, and in 1992 both Phase III, with a capacity of 2.5 MGD, and Phase IV (2 MGD) came into operation. The first phase of the water supply scheme operates on the right bank of the River Indus, the second phase on the left bank of the North-Western Canal, and the third phase in Old Sukkur near the industrial estate.
     To date, 19,619 water connections for domestic and industrial purposes have been sanctioned. In addition, the municipality has provided four hundred public stand-pipes from the first water supply scheme and ninety public stand- pipes from the second phase in order to provide drinking water to those people who cannot afford to pay for a regular water connection. The municipality has also provided over 200 hand pumps throughout the District, but only seventy- two are in working order as the rest have gone brackish.