PESHAWAR: Around 400 clean water supply schemes in Khyber Pakhtukhwa (KP) have been completed at a cost of Rs 3281.758 million during the last three years. The net of the water quality monitoring laboratories has been extended to the settled districts of the province. According to an official handout the government of KP has intended to provide citizens clean drinking water and has successfully completed more than 400 pure water schemes in the different parts of the province. The government of KP has also established water quality monitoring laboratories in District Mardan, Abbotabad, Kohat and DI Khan. In the year 2013-14, an amount of Rs 3281.758 million was allocated by the government for 22 development projects aimed at improving access to clean drinking water in the province. Additionally, the government has started concentrating on the rusted and worn out pipelines and has replaced around 485 water supply schemes whereas 253 existing nonfunctional schemes were made functional throughout the province. The handout also said that around 130 water supply schemes had started working on solar system and 200 more water supply schemes are under process in the province. The statement said that under the umbrella projects more than 233 sanitation schemes had been given a final touch in record time to mitigate the chances of flood and devastation in the urban areas. In the year 2014-15, Rs 5851 million were allocated for 26 projects whereas in the year 2015-16, Rs 7360 were allocated for 93 developmental projects. In order to promote awareness among the masses of the province, a health hygiene promotion project has been completed successfully. The awareness project has helped to educate the people and government institutions and its officers on the harms of unhygienic water and methods necessary to ensure access to clean drinking water. The provincial government has also planned to launch a greater water supply scheme for the provincial capital after the completion of the feasibility report. Another project by the name of “gravity flow” has been completed in Abbottabad, whereas work on gravity flow projects in Drosh Qasba and Batkhela is under way. Under the gravity flow system, water will be supplied from the source to the community, without the use of any external energy.