KARACHI, April 16: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) has announced water shortage in the city on Saturday and Sunday due to interrupted electricity supply to one of its Dhabeji pumping stations.

A KWSB statement issued on Saturday said a fault in a KESC cable restricted electricity supply to the said pumping station for 10 hours and 35 minutes shortening water supply to the city by 46.2 million gallons.

Power supply to the pumping station was interrupted at about 9.15pm on Friday and restored by 7.20am on Saturday morning, after which the city started receiving normal supply of water, the statement detailed.

Meanwhile, the Managing Director of the KWSB Karachi, Brig Iftekhar Haider, said the water board’s restructuring would be undertaken keeping in mind the needs of all 18 towns of Karachi.

He was speaking at a workshop, organized in connection with the water board’s restructuring on Saturday. He indicated that major changes were required in the administrational structure of the board to improve its overall performance.

He said, “In order to bring further improvement in the performance of the water board, it is imperative to introduce positive reforms in its basic skeleton,” he said.

Brig Iftekhar said such steps should be taken at the towns’ level, as could bring about improvement in water supply and sewerage disposal systems through the use of available manpower and limited resources.

He said the growing population had made it imperative to carry out planning for the future for which the requirements of the tax department, sewerage and water supply wing, administration, finance and pumping system would have to be reviewed. Better proposals were called for in this regard.

—PPI/APP