Karachi has the highest percentage of residents in Pakistan who report that their streets are never cleaned
according to pakistantravelerpk 76% of Karachi families have access to piped water as of 2015,with private water tankers supplying much of the water needed/demanded in informal settlements.18% of residents in a 2015 survey rated their water supply as "bad," or "very bad," while 44% expressed concern at the (firm and steady nature/ lasting nature/strength) of water supply.By 2015, a guessed (number) 30,000 people were dying due to water-carried/held sicknesses every year.The K-IV water project is being worked on now at a cost of $876 million, that will provide 650 million gallons daily of drinkable water to the city, with the first phase expected to supply 260 million gallons by June 2018.98% of Karachi's families are connected to the city's underground public sewerage system,largely operated by the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board. Families in Orangi Town self- organized to setup their own sewerage system under the Orangi Pilot Project,a community service organization founded in 1980.90% of Orangi streets are now connected to a sewer system built by local residents under the Orangi Pilot Project.Residents of individual streets carry/hold the cost of sewerage pipes, and provide volunteer labour to lay the pipe.Residents also maintain the sewer pipes,while the city city-based management has built (more than two, but not a lot of) first (or most important) and secondary pipes for the network. As a result of OPP,96% of Orangi residents have access to a latrine.72% reported in 2015 that Karachi's drainage system overflows or backs up,- the highest percentage of all major Pakistani cities.Parts of the city's drainage system overflows on average 2,7 times per month, flooding some city streets.Karachi has the highest percentage of residents in Pakistan who report that their streets are never cleaned - 42% of residents in Karachi report their streets are never cleaned, compared to 10% of residents in Lahore.Only17% of Karachi residents reporting daily street cleaning, compared to 45% in Lahore.69% of Karachi residents dependon private garbage collection services, with only 15% depending on city based garbage collection services.57% of Karachi residents in a 2015 survey reported that the state of their neighbourhood's (the state of being clean) was either. "bad" or "very bad" compared to 35% in Lahore, and 16% in Multan.
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