KARACHI, Sept 29: Over 300 housing units in several apartment buildings, around half a dozen schools and a kachchi abadi in Soldier Bazar No 1, are getting contaminated water for the last fortnight.

People residing in several apartment buildings, situated on either side of Soldier Bazaar's Shahnawaz Bhutto Road, complained that a number of residents of the affected locality, especially children and elderly people, are nowadays suffering from abdominal ailments owing to consumption of contaminated water.

They deplored that although sewage-mixed water, having foul smell, was being supplied in their apartment buildings and in a number of schools, situated in Soldier Bazaar No 1, for the last 15 days, the KWSB officials have not yet bothered to rectify the fault responsible for contaminated water.

The buildings where contaminated water is being supplied include Panjwani Manzil, Bismillah Manzil, Badami House, Saadat Manzil, Gulshan-i-Amna, Kaisar Bai Mohammadi Manzil etc.

Suspecting that sewage might be seeping into the pipeline of their locality, they demanded of the City Nazim and KWSB managing director to direct the officials concerned to take up the issue on priority, or else abdominal diseases might break out in their locality in an epidemic form.

"Isn't it an irony that the KWSB officials concerned are sleeping over the issue knowing that sewage-mixed water was being consumed by thousands of schoolchildren of at least seven schools, situated on either side of Shahnawaz Bhutto Road," an elderly person of the locality deplored.

OVERFLOW: Filthy water gushing out from some leaking sewerage lines has inundated at least three major streets of Gulshan-i-Iqbal's Block 13-D/1, causing inconvenience to motorists and pedestrians, besides creating a stinking atmosphere.