KARACHI, May 25: The well-digging business is thriving in all those parts of the city which continue to be deprived of water for over a fortnight in the current hot and humid weather.
Most of the wells are nowadays being dug in huge housing complexes and multi-storied apartment buildings as the KWSB officials responsible for ensuring equitable distribution of water have failed in normalising the water supply situation, despite the number of complaints lodged with them.
The residents of multi-storied apartment buildings, where water supply continues to dwindle, are the worst-affected as in the absence of piped water they cannot even purchase water from tankers on an individual basis.
In some cases, according to office-bearers of residents’ welfare associations of different buildings of Gulistan-i-Jauhar and Gulshan-i-Iqbal where wells are being dug, the suggestion of digging wells to meet the water requirement had been given by the KWSB engineers themselves.
SHORTAGE: Meanwhile, several other parts of the city remained in the grip of an acute water shortage. The hard-hit localities included Baghdadi, Kalri, Pakistan Chowk, Haqqani Chowk, Clifton blocks 2, 4 and 5, Mehmoodabad, Manzoor Colony, North Nazimabad’s Block H and Q, Gulshan blocks 2, 5, 10, 10-A and Gulistan-i-Jauhar’s blocks 1, 2, 3 and 17.
When a senior official of the KWSB belonging to its water distribution system was contacted to know the cause of the persisting water shortage, he said that they have been getting less supply from the Indus source.
However, another official of the KWSB’s Water Trunk Main division responsible for bulk water supply system refuted the claim, saying that whenever officials belonging to the water distribution system failed to ensure equitable distribution of water, they start blaming the WTM division.
