KARACHI, Sept 7: Various parts of former districts West and Central continue to be in the grip of water crisis due to short and irregular supply of water from the Hub dam.

The hard-hit areas include Baldia, Orangi, Shershah, Site industrial area, North Karachi and parts of Surjani Town.

Accusing the KWSB officials of not ensuring equitable distribution of water in Orangi Town, residents of the township’s sector 11 1/2, Baloch Colony and Benazir Colony, regretted that in the absence of piped water they have no alternative but to consume sub-soil unhygienic water.

The KWSB, on the one hand, has reduced the quantity of water and curtailed the duration of their supply on the other, they added.

Similar complaints have been received from the residents of North Karachi’s Sir Syed Town (sector 11-C-/1), Buffer Zone’s Sector 15-A/5 and Baldia Town.

They complained that although their localities had been experiencing acute water shortage for the last one month, the KWSB officials had not restored normal supply.

Attributing the persisting water shortage in the localities of the city’s West and Central parts to the reduced supply of water from Hub source, the KWSB sources admitted that they had been experiencing some difficulties in ensuring smooth and regular supply to the areas hooked to the Hub source, as the city at present was being supplied only between 18 and 19 million gallons of water after every 72 hours as against 45mgd for three consecutive days after every two days from the Hub source.

Complaints of persisting water shortage were also received from parts of Lyari and Kharadar.

CONTAMINATION: Residents of Sarafa Bazaar’s Kamil Lane deplored that they had been continuously being supplied contaminated water for the last one month despite a number of complaints lodged with the KWSB.