RAWALPINDI: Albayrak’s Communications Squad Team and ‘Nallah Gang’ started a special cleanliness and dengue awareness campaign at Committee Chowk Millat Colony, Union Council-42. During the first phase, the ‘Nallah Gang’ cleared all the drains of the area and cleaned the streets and junctions. In the second phase of the campaign, the communications team set up an awareness camp to educate people about basic measures to take in order to prevent dengue larvae breeding as well as dengue fever. The team asked residents to keep their houses and streets clean as it was the best precaution against dengue. Locals, including shopkeepers and godown owners, were told not to let water accumulate in pots, discarded cans on rooftops, tyres and other utensils. The Albayrak team requested locals not to throw waste in drains or even on street corners as it gets stuck in the drains and blocks them. These blocked drains, then, act as breeding site for many disease-carrying species, including aedes aegypti. The locals were guided to maintain environmental cleanliness, walk few more steps and drop the waste in Albayrak’s waste containers installed after every few miles. They may also avail the service of door-to-door waste collection and hand over the waste to the company’s sanitation workers. Kids were asked to throw waste in trash bins and refine their hygiene patterns. During the campaign, waste bags and awareness pamphlets were also distributed. Coloured pencils and pens were distributed among children and other camp visitors. During the camp activity, Sector B Zonal Chief Qadeer Butt and Albayrak Operations Manager Naeem Zaman also joined the team. Residents were given helpline number (1139) for registration of waste-related complaints. The people endorsed Albayrak’s efforts of making the city clean and said that a prominent shift could be observed in the traditional attitude towards waste disposal. WASA: The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA), Rawalpindi has decided to print pictures of consumers’ houses on their water bills to address complaints regarding wrong distribution of bills. According to details, the process of printing pictures of houses on water bills of more than 150,000 consumers of WASA across the city is being carried out. So far, pictures of 30,000 houses have been printed and the remaining pictures will be printed on bills within a month. After the completion of the process, the bills which will be sent to consumers will have pictures of their houses. Earlier, consumers had complained that the bills sent to them did not match their addresses.