KARACHI, Feb 18: Residents of almost all sectors of North Karachi Township went without water for the second consecutive day on Monday in the wake of unannounced water closure applied by the KWSB for undertaking a technical work.
Residents of the sprawling township told Dawn that since they had been deprived of water without any prior announcement concerning the water closure, they had to drink sub-soil unhygienic water.
KWSB officials, admitting that a two-day water closure, starting from 10pm on Saturday, had been applied for entire North Karachi for carrying out necessary work, claimed that water supply to all the affected areas had been restored on Monday from the North-East Karachi’s old system, but supply would be normal by Tuesday afternoon.
CONTAMINATION: Over 30 houses in Liaquatabad’s C-One Area have been receive stinking and black-coloured water for the past 27 days.
People residing in the affected houses complained that the problem of contaminated water had been persisting in their locality for the past 27 days, but the officials concerned of the KWSB did not seem to be interested in rectifying the problem responsible for the supply of contaminated water.
Suspecting that sewage water might be seeping into their locality’s pipeline, they demanded of the city Nazim and the KWSB managing director to order the officials concerned to get the leaking pipeline repaired on a priority basis, otherwise dangerous diseases, with which some people had already been suffering, might assume alarming proportions.
“A number of children and elderly people have already started complaining about acute pain in their stomachs,” a perturbed resident of the locality’s House No 45/10/A said, adding that since stinking water was being supplied to them, they had no choice but to bring water in buckets and canisters from faroff areas.
GUTTER OVERFLOW: Filthy water gushing out of choked up sewerage lines has flooded a major portion of a busy road near Lucky Star in Saddar causing inconvenience to motorists and unhygienic conditions in the locality.
People residing near Lucky Star Restaurant and Fleet Club complained that sewage had been coming out of some gutters, but the authorities concerned had not yet taken measures to rectify the problem in spite of the fact that heavy vehicular traffic, including buses of Korangi and Landhi routes and school vans of a number of nearby schools, passes through Lucky Star.
Complaints of overflowing gutters have also been received Liaquatabad’s Union Council-6 (Sikandarabad).
People residing near the locality’s Masjid Darus Salam said filthy water coming out of choked up gutters had been standing on a number of streets of the locality, causing filthy environment in the locality as well as inconvenience to them.
They regretted that the menace of overflowing gutters had been persisting in the locality for the past three days, but the KWSB had, so far, not bothered to clear the choked up sewerage lines.
