Fleet Tanker PNS NASR to Gwadar with 1200 tons of fresh/drinking water.

[Penguin]

https://www.dawn.com/news/1310204

"After Gwadar and adjacent areas were hit by a severe water shortage crisis in 2014, authorities had tried to complete the desalination plant installed in the Gwadar’s industrial area on an emergency basis. Generators were provided and transmission lines were laid. But, the plant could not achieve its full capacity. It is now producing 300,000 to 400,000 gallons of water per day."

Well, that kinda puts the delivery of 1200 tons (1,200,000 liters or 317,000 gallons) of fresh/drinking water by the navy in perspective, doesn it. If you consider the cost of using that AOR to ferry water, engineers could be hired. Those responsible for the delays should be punished in some form or other.

Sounds like there is a problem with the energy (electricity) needed to operate that particular plant. Makes you wonder if some of the money spent on e.g. a nuclear program would not be better spent elsewhere....

Makes you wonder if - to complement the plant(s) - it wouldn't be worthwhile to provide individual households with small solar powered AWGs, to reduce household demand on the plants. Other options should also persued, to reduce water demand and improve efficient use.

 

[Kabira]

"After Gwadar and adjacent areas were hit by a severe water shortage crisis in 2014, authorities had tried to complete the desalination plant installed in the Gwadar’s industrial area on an emergency basis. Generators were provided and transmission lines were laid. But, the plant could not achieve its full capacity. It is now producing 300,000 to 400,000 gallons of water per day."

Well, that kinda puts the delivery of 1200 tons (1,200,000 liters or 317,000 gallons) of fresh/drinking water by the navy in perspective, doesn it. If you consider the cost of using that AOR to ferry water, engineers could be hired. Those responsible for the delays should be punished.

Sounds like there is a problem with the energy (electricity) needed to operate that particular plant.

Makes you wonder if some of the money spent on e.g. a nuclear program would not be better spent elsewhere....

Gwadar 330MW coal power plant will be completed by 2019 and looks like new 5 million seawater reverse osmosis plant along with it.

 

[TOPGUN]

Good move by PN, howcome PNS Moawin is not used as much as PNS Nasar is ??

 

[S.Y.A]

Sounds like there is a problem with the energy (electricity) needed to operate that particular plant.

solar panels over the plant, something like Tesla's Giga Factory?

Makes you wonder if some of the money spent on e.g. a nuclear program would not be better spent elsewhere....

Actually, no. mismanagement and an utter lack of vision are the root causes. Would have been better to set up a solar power plant at Gwadar rather than at Bahawalpur

Good move by PN, howcome PNS Moawin is not used as much as PNS Nasar is ??

old ship, older than the Type 21s(most probably rusting away as we speak). the new fleet tanker will replace Moawin.

 

[ghazi52]

Like
DHA Co-generation Power Plant Karachi that was supposed to generate 94 MW of electricity and supply 3 million gallons of water daily. Investment of about Rs. 7 Billion.

Not working.

 

[Penguin]

Good move by PN, howcome PNS Moawin is not used as much as PNS Nasar is ??

She carries just 165 tons freshwater, as compared to PNS Nasr's 1200 tons.

Besides, whil PNS Nasr is powered by a big marine diesel, PNS Moawin is steampowered (as RNthNS Poolster she was the last ship in the Dutch navy so powered: her newer, dieselpowered halfsister RNthNS Zuiderkruis was based on the earlier replenishment ship Poolster [Moawin], entered service in 1975 and was decommissioned 2012. The ship has been stripped for parts and left The Netherlands for scrapping in Turkey on 21 February 2014).

A835 = Poolster = Moawin
A832 = Zuiderkruis

Poolster with USS Detroit (AOE)

Zuiderkruis

Poolster

Zuiderkruis

 

[mingle]

Impressive usage of ship for water supply but we need a real water solution

All we need a treatment plant which can make sea water Drinkable.Whole Israel is on sea water should be an issue plus to other coast areas like Jewwani turbat passni.

 

[Penguin]

Actually, no. mismanagement and an utter lack of vision are the root causes. Would have been better to set up a solar power plant at Gwadar rather than at Bahawalpur

I meant nuclear weapons program.

Like
DHA Co-generation Power Plant Karachi that was supposed to generate 94 MW of electricity and supply 3 million gallons of water daily. Investment of about Rs. 7 Billion.

Not working.

And if a desalinationplant takes electricity from that, then that would explain the need for genetors etc.

 

[Blue Marlin]

She carries just 165 tons freshwater, as compared to PNS Nasr's 1200 tons.

Besides, whil PNS Nasr is powered by a big marine diesel, PNS Moawin is steampowered (as RNthNS Poolster she was the last ship in the Dutch navy so powered: her newer, dieselpowered halfsister RNthNS Zuiderkruis was based on the earlier replenishment ship Poolster [Moawin], entered service in 1975 and was decommissioned 2012. The ship has been stripped for parts and left The Netherlands for scrapping in Turkey on 21 February 2014).

A835 = Poolster = Moawin
A832 = Zuiderkruis

Poolster with USS Detroit (AOE)

Zuiderkruis

Poolster

Zuiderkruis

bloody hell it must be old if its steam powered. i guess the turkish tanker will be replacing it.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

"After Gwadar and adjacent areas were hit by a severe water shortage crisis in 2014, authorities had tried to complete the desalination plant installed in the Gwadar’s industrial area on an emergency basis. Generators were provided and transmission lines were laid. But, the plant could not achieve its full capacity. It is now producing 300,000 to 400,000 gallons of water per day."

Well, that kinda puts the delivery of 1200 tons (1,200,000 liters or 317,000 gallons) of fresh/drinking water by the navy in perspective, doesn it. If you consider the cost of using that AOR to ferry water, engineers could be hired. Those responsible for the delays should be punished in some form or other.

Sounds like there is a problem with the energy (electricity) needed to operate that particular plant. Makes you wonder if some of the money spent on e.g. a nuclear program would not be better spent elsewhere....

Makes you wonder if - to complement the plant(s) - it wouldn't be worthwhile to provide individual households with small solar powered AWGs, to reduce household demand on the plants. Other options should also persued, to reduce water demand and improve efficient use.

Well they are trying to get more energy to the area, there are several projects in development specified at supporting Gwadar with electricity.

 

[ghazi52]

Newly Constructed Sawar Kaur Dam

 

[Penguin]

bloody hell it must be old if its steam powered. i guess the turkish tanker will be replacing it.

She first entered service just a month or so before I was born... she serve the Dutch navy 30 years before being sold to the Pakistani navy in 1994, on to serve another ... almost 25 years!

 

[Blue Marlin]

She first entered service just a month or so before I was born... she serve the Dutch navy 30 years before being sold to the Pakistani navy in 1994, on to serve another ... almost 25 years!

bloody and here's me thinking everyone is in their 20's-30's
does it feel a bit weird to think a ship which is as old as you is going to breakers soon? does it make you feel old ?

 

[Penguin]

bloody and here's me thinking everyone is in their 20's-30's
does it feel a bit weird to think a ship which is as old as you is going to breakers soon? does it make you feel old ?

Old analysts never die--they just get broken down by age and sex (and lots of it, hopefully)!

 

[Thorough Pro]

Why not setup a desalination plant right there?

1200 Tons equals 1,200,000 liters. These are emergency measures only.

The shortest long term solution will be building a water channel from Akara Dam to Gwadar City to supply potable water.

The distance from the Dam to the city will depend on the shortest route taken approx 20 kms.

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