KARACHI, July 18: Various parts of the city are being supplied muddy water for the past one week, posing serious health hazards to the residents of the affected localities.
First, muddy water was being supplied to some parts of Federal B-Area and Mithadar only, but impure water has now started trickling into the taps of almost all parts of former district Central.
The localities receiving muddy water include almost all blocks of FB Area, Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s blocks 10, 14, 15 and 17, Gulistan-i-Jauhar’s Block 18, parts of Sindhi Muslim Housing Society, Korangi No 2, parts of Nazimabad, Liaquatabad and different blocks of North Karachi and Buffer Zone.
Residents of the affected localities complained that the water being supplied to them for the past 5-6 days was not only muddy, but it also contained heavy grains of sand.
Residents claimed that the continuous supply of muddy water showed that water was not being properly filtered at the filter plants in North-East Karachi and COD Hills.
Complaints of supply of contaminated and stinking water have also been received from Malir Extension’s Sector 8-5, Sharifabad’s Zeenat Square and Qasimabad.
Residents of Malir’s affected locality complained that they had lodged a number of complaints with the officials concerned of the KWSB, but the quality of water, they had been getting for the past one month, had not improved.
Suspecting that sewage might be seeping into their locality’s pipelines, they demanded of the authorities concerned to instruct the officials concerned to immediately rectify the fault responsible for the supply of filthy water, or else some epidemic might break out in their locality.
SHORTAGE: Residents of Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s Block 4-A (Journalists Society) have been without water for the past five days and all their complaints in this regard have, so far, gone unheeded.
The residents deplored that the Gulshan Town’s Nazim had himself asked the KWSB’s engineer concerned to ensure smooth supply to the affected locality, but no step had been taken so far.
