KARACHI, April 13: Acute water shortage continues to persist in several parts of Orangi, Baldia and Surjani in the current hot and dry weather.
Residents of the affected areas complained that they had been receiving scant supply with a low pressure merely because of leaking pipelines.
According to a councillor of Orangi's Union Council-9, the hard-hit areas include Ghausia Baloch Colony, Urdu Chowk, Benazir Colony, Orangi's sectors 1, 7, 8, 10 and 13. Complaints of acute water shortage have also been received from many parts of Kharadar, Mithadar, Pakistan Chowk, Haquani Chowk, Bangalore Town, Adamjee Nagar, Al-Hamra Society, Jinnah Cooperative Housing Society, Mehmoodabad, Akhtar Colony, Manzoor Colony, Azam Basti, Aurangabad, Barra Maidan, Keamari, Malir's Saudia Colony and a number of North Karachi's sector.
Residents of the affected localities regretted that although they had been experiencing acute water shortage since the advent of summer, the KWSB had, so far, failed to make public aware of the location and telephone numbers of its complaint centres.
The persisting water shortage has also given boost to the sale of private tankers charging exorbitant rates from the residents of water-starved areas. Meanwhile, a seven-hour water closure in some areas was announced on Monday in order to carry out repair work at Dhabeji's pumping houses (K-2 and Phase-III).
Residents said that although their supply was scheduled to be normalized by Monday evening, the supply had not been restored till 5pm on Tuesday. They complained that in the absence of water supply, they had to buy water through private tankers at exorbitant rates.
