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Water crisis deepens in Thar as firm warns of shutting RO plants
A private firm operating 513 Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants in Tharparkar on Monday warned of shutting them down by June 7 if its payments are not cleared, deepening the prevalent water crisis in the area.
A spokesperson of the firm told Dawn that it has not been paid by the Sindh government for the past 11 months and is facing severe financial constraints.
According to a report on the survey of 680 water schemes — submitted to the Supreme Court-mandated judicial commission on water quality in Sindh — the people of the desert region have only been left with the option of getting water from solar RO plants as 38 out of 81 water supply schemes are non-functional while the rest are facing an acute water shortage.