KARACHI, Feb 26: Frequent power failures affected water supply position in various parts of the city, forcing the residents of the affected localities to either purchase private tankers or consume sub-soil unhygienic water.

Residents of various localities in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Federal B’ Area, Old City area, Liaquatabad and Malir complained that they had been receiving scant supply of water for the last one week as power failures had become matter of routine.

Admitting that water supply schedule of the localities whose power supply was being disrupted nowadays has been affected badly during the last three or four days, KWSB sources said that localities could go dry for a day or two if power failure timings coincided with its water supply schedule.

Residents of affected localities complained that since they had been experiencing acute water shortage owing to frequent failures, especially occurring during nights, they had no choice but to either purchase private tankers at exorbitant rates or consume unhygienic water at the cost of their health.

Some affected residents told Dawn that they could not pump water to their overhead tanks despite having water in their underground tanks owing to major power breakdown on Sunday.

“Our locality will now remain dry till Tuesday as we are supplied water on alternatives days,” a resident of Gulshan’s Block-3 remarked.