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KARACHI, Aug 29: Jet-black water has been supplied to the residents of Kamil Galli, Napier Quarters, for the last fortnight.
People in the vicinity of Napier Quarters’ Sarafa Bazaar complained that although a number of children and aged people had fallen victim to the contaminated water, the concerned officials of the KWSB had not yet bothered to rectify the fault responsible for contaminated water.
“It is for the second time during last three months that we are confronting the problem of contaminated water,” a perturbed resident of the affected locality said, recalling that a similar situation had persisted in his locality for more than a month in June and early July.
“The issue of contaminated water was resolved in the second week of July when the locality had started getting clean water but it again cropped up about a fortnight back and it is persisting despite a number of complaints had been lodged not only with officials of the KWSB but also with the locality’s Nazim,” a woman of the locality told Dawn, adding that on the one hand “we are deprived of piped water and, on the other, a number of people of the locality have already fallen ill with diarrhoea and other stomach ailments.
Suspecting that sewage might have seeped into the pipeline, the residents of the affected locality, particularly those residing in the vicinity of Napier Quarters’ Shafi Masjid urged the city Nazim and the KWSB managing director to direct the officials concerned to rectify the fault responsible for contaminated water, or else the severe abdomen diseases would spread in epidemic form.
FILTHY ENVIRONMENT: Stinking atmosphere continued to prevailed in and around some busy commercial areas of the city in the aftermath of Monday’s rains.
Rotten fruits and other filthy material after being soaked with rainwater were emitting foul smell in the commercial areas of Burnes Road, Tariq Road and even in the surrounding streets of Empress Market.
Although those selling fruits on pushcarts have developed the habit of throwing rotten fruits on roadsides, they are not punished by the officials of civic agencies for making the roads filthy and slippery.
GARBAGE: Residents of Thatai Compound’s Shahbaz Plaza, situated in front of the Civil Hospital’s main gate, complained that although heaps of garbage had been lying along the boundary walls of their housing project for the last one month, the sanitary staff of Saddar Town were not removing it despite that numerous complaints had been lodged with them.
They demanded of the city Nazim and Saddar Town’s Nazim to direct the officials to immediately remove the heaps of garbage and save the residents form possible diseases.
