KARACHI, June 16: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board will augment the water supply to Site area so as to bring it to 8mgd within a week.

This assurance was given by KWSB Superintending Engineer Anwar Saeed during a meeting with Site Limited and Site Association office-bearers at the association’s office here on Saturday.

The meeting was called on the intervention of the city nazim to discuss the lingering water shortage in the area which was getting around 2.5mgd to 4.7mgd water against the allocated quota of 8mgd for the last many days.

Mr Saeed said that the KWSB was working round-the-clock to augment water supply from 24-inch-dia connection at Banaras Chowk and would be in a position to augment it from 3mgd to 5mgd within a week. Thereafter the KWSB authorities would stand committed to supplying 8mgd water (5 plus 3mgd from five other connections) to Site area.

On the question of interruptions in water supply to Site area, it was reported that it was due to power breakdowns and the water utility lacked generators to ensure an uninterrupted supply.

Imran Shaukat of the Site Association said that the Sindh governor during a visit to the association’s office on May 31, 2006 had ordered the KWSB to ensure supply of allocated quota of water to Site Ltd. He had also announced an enhancement in the quota to 12mgd on the commissioning of K-III Project, but to no avail.

He urged the KWSB engineers to repair 25 leakages in various supply lines besides installation of a meter at Regent Cinema (Nazimabad) and to arrange generators to ensure 8mgd water supply to Site area.

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