Karachi, May 8: Various parts of the city especially those of the Baldia, Orangi and North Karachi towns have been experiencing a water crisis for the last fortnight. Residents of the affected localities complained that they had been receiving scant supply for the last two weeks despite the fact that their turn of the supply came after every 72 hours.

“On one hand, we are being supplied water with low pressure and for a shorter duration while on the other, our requests for provision of water through tankers often remain unheeded for days together,” a councillor of Orangi Town’s UC No 9 complained.

Deploring the inadequate and interrupted water supply, they said that whenever they informed the KWSB officials about their lingering water issue, they were told that their supply would be restored in a couple of days. But, they fail to honour their commitment every time.

Residents of Orangi Town’s Tori Banghash Colony complained that private tankers, which were doing a roaring business in the locality often supplied filthy water due to which children and elderly people were falling victims to diarrhoea and other gastric diseases.

Complaints of persisting water shortage have also been received from various parts of the Saddar, Baldia, North Karachi, Keamari and Jamshed towns.