HYDERABAD, Aug 5: The situation of water shortage is becoming alarming in the city which continued to echo in the district council session here on Tuesday.

The union council representatives made complaints about non- availability of water in Qasimabad, City and Latifabad talukas and said that Water and Sanitation Agency and Hyderabad Development Authority authorities had remained unmoved.

Wasa water works, Hala Naka and Paretabad works, supply water to City taluka after receiving water from Akram Wah which has been closed since July 20 due to expected breach in the canal which goes to flood-devastated Badin district.

Rest of the areas of Hyderabad are supplied water from filter plant of the HDA near Jamshoro where water is stored in big lagoons but the stored water is coming to an end now.

Speaking in the district council session, Nazim, union council-1, Qasimabad taluka, Ali Nawaz Kurtiyo, said that water was not being supplied to his area for the last four days.

UC-14 Nazim Mir Suleman Talpur and Dilshad Khan of the UC-5 complained that their areas were not getting water for the last eight days.

Wasa representative Kafeel Ahmed said that his organization was in touch with the irrigation authorities and it was expected that water would be released in Akram Wah by two to three feet so that it could be supplied to the city.

Presiding officer Miran Muhammad Mohammad Shah asked the district council officer to call an official from the office of the chief engineer, Kotri Barrage, to tell when regular water supply to the city would be restored.

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