Pakistan, Jan. 17 -- Supreme Court (SC) has directed all four provinces to implement orders in order to impose tax on bottle water within ten days. The dateline is fixed for January 20, 2019.

In a judgment on extraction of sub soil and using pipeline water by bottle water companies for their end product, a tax has been imposed at a rate of Rs one per litre on manufacturing and in addition a penalty of Rs 3 per litre would also be charged.

The SC has also directed all companies including fertilizer, petroleum, refinery, tannery, textile, garments, marble, energy, pulp, paper, cement, sugar, ethanol, pharmaceutical and other industries using sub soil and pipeline water in great quantity to ensure treatment of waste water.

Moreover, SC in...