LAHORE, Dec 14: The supply of contaminated water to the Ravi Road areas (union councils 67 and 68) is still continuing, say residents. At least eight people had been killed after consuming contaminated water in the last week of this June.

The residents of UC-67 told Dawn on Wednesday that Rs100,000 compensation announced by the chief minister for the families of each victim had not yet been given to them.

Ms Afshan of Ravi Colony, who lost her fatherless seven-year-old daughter, Sana, claimed that she was not even given Rs25,000 as compensation announced by the district nazim.

Ms Parveen and Sajid, who lost their 14-year-old daughter Madiha, a class IX student, and grandmother Anwari Begum, respectively, said the woman councillor of the area had promised them Rs100,000 compensation each but to no avail.

They claimed that none of the eight victims’ families had received the compensation announced by the chief minister.

The affected families have urged the chief minister to probe into the matter and bring to book those who are responsible for denying them compensation.

Nafees and Jaffer of Street 3 of UC 67 complained that despite the government’s effort of replacing supply lines of the area there were still reports of the supply of contaminated water.

“Our claim can be verified by testing a water sample from a laboratory,” they added.

They said no one could think of drinking water before boiling it. Most of the residents were using the tankers’ water placed there by the district government.

They said the government machinery, which had responded swiftly to the tragedy, should at least now visit the area to ensure whether the problem had completely been rooted out.

A Wasa spokesman told this reporter that almost 75 per cent water supply lines had been replaced. The CDGL’s water tanks were present there for 24 hours for the supply of clean water.

The CDGL’s health department and the Institute of Public Health’s bacteriology department had confirmed that the samples of drinking water and stool collected from the Ravi Road areas were contaminated with the sewerage water.

According to the report, the water pipes laid some two to four decades ago had apparently broken down from different places and clean water was mixed up with the sewerage.