KARACHI, Sept 24: Around 2,500 houses in Malir ‘C’ Area have been getting sewage mixed water for the last 15 days.
Residents of the affected locality complained that they were being supplied stinking black coloured water for the last 15 days. The residents said that the colour of the water being supplied to them indicated that sewage water might be seeping into water supply line.
Deploring that the officials concerned of water and sanitation department have not taken measures to rectify the fault, they feared that some serious abdomen diseases could break out in their locality in an epidemic form.
Complaints of contaminated water have also been received from the residents of block-2, PECHS.
Meanwhile, the issue of contaminated water continued to persist in Block-20 of Federal B’ Area’s for the last 47 consecutive days.
Residents of the affected houses complained that although a number of complaints had been lodged with the W&S department’s chief engineer (Water Supply) and other officials, none of them had taken any measure to rectify the fault so far.
SHORTAGE: Water supply to different parts of the city will be affected on Thursday owing to a power breakdown that occurred at Dhabeji pumping station on Wednesday.
Officials in the W&S department said that as there was no power supply at the Dhabeji pump house from 10.30am to 10.50???? on Wednesday, the water supply was short to the tune of 12mgd water.
The localities, whose supply would be affected on Thursday, are Landhi, Korangi, Shah Faisal Town and Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town.
Complaints against acute water shortage have been received from residents of Shah Faisal Colony and North Karachi’s sectors 5-C, 7-D/2 and 11-C/1, Orangi’s Sector-11 1/2, Baloch Colony and Benazir Colony.
