KARACHI, Aug 25: Complaints of contaminated water supply have been increasing in the city since the last rains and have assumed alarming proportion at present.

Most of such complaints have been received from Jutland Lines, North Karachi’s sector 5-D and 5-B/2 (Union Council No 12), Shehzadi Apartments, Block-2 of PECHS; Model Colony’s Kazimabad, Block-20 of Federal B’ Area, and Saifee Lane in Lyari.

Residents of F.B’ Area’s Block-20 (Al-Noor Society) complained that the issue of contaminated water in a number of houses, starting from R-141 to R-155 had been persisting for the last one-and-a-half months.

A resident of the affected locality, Dr Noor Fatima, told Dawn on Monday that a number of houses in their locality had been receiving sewage water for the last one-and-a- half months. She said that an official of water and sanitation department, who visited her locality on Monday, had disconnected the supply line.

A similar complain has been received from the residents of Jutland Lines. Residents of the affected locality deplored that although around 50 houses, starting from House No-38/5, situated near Jutland Lines’ Jamia Masjid Madina, were being supplied highly stinking water for the last three months, the water and sanitation department officials had not taken measures to rectify the persisting problem. They said that a number of complaints had been lodged with the concerned officials.

Suspecting that sewage might be seeping into potable water supply lines, residents of the affected localities apprehend that if the concerned authorities fail to help resolve the issue on priority, they would be exposed to serious abdomen diseases.

“Already elderly persons and children of our locality often complain of having nausea and stomach pain,” complained a resident of Lyari’s Saifee Lane, where contaminated water has become a chronic issue.