KARACHI, March 6: Various parts of the city on Thursday either went dry or received scant supply. Among the hard-hit areas were Pakistan Chowk, Haqqani Chowk, Clifton’s block 2, Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s blocks 4, 4-A, 10, 13-A and 13-D, Adamjee Nagar, Bangalore Town, Jinnah Cooperative Housing Society and Al-Hamra Society.
Residents of the affected localities complained that though water shortage problem occurred off and on, concerned officials of the city government’s Water and Sanitation Department were taking no measures to ensure smooth and uninterrupted supply.
The localities where water was not supplied on Thursday under the weekly holiday system were Landhi, Korangi, Defence Housing Authority, National Refinery, Karachi Port Trust, Pakistan Railways, PAF (Korangi) Base and its adjoining areas.
CLOSURE: The areas which would not receive water on Friday are Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s blocks 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 10-A, 13-A, 13-B, 16, 17 and 18. The localities which would not be supplied water on Saturday are the entire PECHS area, KDA scheme-1, Sharfabad, Karachi Television Centre, KACH Society, Civic Centre and its adjoining localities, Mehmoodabad No 5, Liaquatabad, Gharibabad, Furqanabad, Bandhani Colony, parts of Nazimabad, Liaquat National Hospital and Aga Khan Hospital.
Under the water-holiday system, enforced in October last, water supply to the localities fed from the Indus source, was being suspended once in a week turn-by-turn basis, in order to divert the Indus water to the localities hooked to the Hub source. The benefiting areas are the sprawling townships of Orangi, Baldia, Surjani, North Karachi, Shershah and parts of the Site industrial area.
Though the supply from the Hub source has resumed since Tuesday, the W&S Department said that the supply to Hub Dam-hooked localities had begun on trial basis on Thursday.
