KARACHI, April 24: Acute water shortage continued to persist in various parts of the city for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, giving a boost to the sale of private tankers in the water-starved localities.
The KWSB’s officials have not yet been able to offset the 52 million gallon water shortfall caused by two recent power breakdowns at Dhabeji pumping station. Furthermore, they are also facing difficulties in ensuring normal water supply to different localities owing to frequent power failures currently taking place at local pump houses, insiders told Dawn.
When asked which localities had been affected the most, they said that though generally the entire city bore its brunt, the worst-hit included Al-Hamra Society, Bahadurabad, Sharfabad, Maqbool-i-Aam Society, parts of Sindhi Muslim Housing Society, different sectors of North Karachi, Old Golimar, deficient pockets of Lyari, Landhi, Korangi, Malir and parts of Shah Faisal Colony.
However, the KWSB officials claimed that although water supply to areas which had suffered as a result of short supply from Dhabeji had been normalized on Tuesday night, the localities from where complaints of water shortage were still being received could be facing power shutdowns during the hours water is supplied.
NAZIMABAD: Residents of Nazimabad’s Block 3 complained that their locality was without water for the last one week.
People residing in the second lane of Nazimabad’s Block 3, complained that although at least two lanes of the locality were facing water problem for the last one week, the officials concerned of the KWSB had not yet bothered to remove the fault responsible for this agony.
A woman residing in the locality’s House No 3-B-2/12 said that the water shortage problem had been persisting since Wednesday last when their locality’s sewerage line had started overflowing and complaints of contaminated water had been pouring in from some houses.
She, however, deplored that though the problem of over-flowing gutters had been rectified, the KWSB officials had neither restored their water supply nor removed the filthy material which they had taken out from some choked sewerage line.
“Filthy material lying on their street was not only posing health hazards to the residents of the locality but was also an eyesore to the passers-by,” she remarked.
