Pakistan, Jan. 22 -- Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB)'s Treatment Plant IV, a component S-III project would face further delay owing to ill informed decision by Board of Revenue (BoR) regarding allotment of land, officials of KWSB have informed.

Due to absence of the facility, toxic industrial and other industrial waste water is currently discharging into sea. This has polluted seawater within 100 kilometres radius.

The BoR has so far failed to cancel illegal allotments on 150 acres of land out of total land of S-III projects, officials disclosed.

The S-III project land (reserved land status) had been allotted to KWSB in 1989. The 150 acres of land allotted on illegal grounds was facing toward the main road.

In this connection,...