KARACHI, Nov 14: Normal water supply to the deficit areas of Lyari Town and its 11 union councils will be restored within three days.

This assurance was given by KWSB high officials to the Nazim of Lyari Town at a meeting held here on Tuesday. The emergency meeting was called as all representatives of local bodies announced last week that they would stage a rally against the continuing water shortage in front of the KWSB office on Nov 14.

On Wednesday morning more than 200 councillors representing Lyari Town and 11 union councils converged in the Town office in Chawkiwara to join in a protest march.

However, on the assurance of the Town Nazim that normal water supply would be restored to the deficit areas of the Town within three days, the march plan was deferred.

On this occasion, the Nazim told a crowd mainly comprising local bodies members and including women that he had a detailed meeting on Tuesday with the high-ups of the KWSB on the scarcity of water in various parts of the town.

According to him, the KWSB officials assured him that the supply position would start improving in the locality on Wednesday night and within three days the water supply would be normal. Later, talking to this reporter, the Nazim said the supply from the Mirza Adam Khan Road source would be improved by Wednesday night, followed by the restoration of normal water supply from old source near Garden and the COD the next day.

Similarly, the KWSB officials also assured him that efforts would be made to track a missing water pipeline damaged and submerged along Shah Latif Bhitai Road.

He said the pipeline would be renovated on an emergency basis and it would solve the water shortage problem in Baghdadi and its adjoining areas.

He also said the Ali Mohammad Mohalla and its adjoining areas would be supplied with water through a direct line from Shah Latif Bhitai Road.

There has been an acute water shortage in the Ali Mohammad Lane and the Eidu Lane for the past many years. A number of protests rallies had also been held in the locality against the non-supply of water in the past.

Water shortage: Several parts of the city have been facing an acute water shortage for the last couple of days.

The worst-hit areas include North Karachi’s sectors 5-C, 11-A and 11-B, Federal B’ Area’s blocks 2 and 10, Paposhnagar and the Old City Area.

The residents of the Old City Area complained that they had been facing water shortage off and on but the concerned officials of the KWSB were taking no measures to help resolve the issue on a permanent basis.

Complaints of persisting water shortage have also been received from Lyari’s Baghdadi, Shah Beg Lane, Eidoo Lane, Behar Colony and Agra Taj Colony areas.

Residents of North Karachi’s affected sectors said contrary to the announcement which the KWSB officials had made in August when water supply from Hub dam source was restored that all those areas hooked to the Hub source would get the supply daily, instead of 72 hours, their localities usually goes without water for three to four days in a week.

They demanded of the city Nazim and the KWSB managing director to direct the concerned officials to ensure uninterrupted supply in their localities as they could not afford to buy private tankers off and on.

Meanwhile, residents of Federal B’ Area’s blocks 2 and 10 complained that although they had been experiencing an acute water shortage for the last two days, the concerned officials have not yet taken measures to restore normal supply.

OVERFLOW: A leakage in the main supply line in Sector 48-B, Korangi No 2, had been causing inconvenience to the residents and passersby.