KARACHI, Jan 21: Different parts of the city went without water on Monday owing to a major leakage in a 24-inch dia pipeline near the Quaid’s mausoleum.
The worst affected areas included Soldier Bazaar, Shikarpur Colony, Gurumandir and parts of Muslimabad.
Area people said although the pipeline got damaged on Sunday, their localities didn’t get a single drop of water even on Monday.
People residing in Catholic Colony No 2, near Muslimabad Hydrants, complained that their locality had been without water for the past one week and all their requests for restoration of water have, so far, bore no fruits.
GULSHAN: Apartment buildings of Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s Block 13-D- 2, situated behind Hassan Square, have been getting brackish water through the pipelines.
Residents of the apartments said it seems that they were being supplied sub-soil water, instead of piped water.
The other localities where acute water shortage continues to persist included Lyari’s Jumman Shah Plots, Dariabad, Nawabad, PECHS’s Green-belt area and different sectors of North Karachi.
Filthy water: More than 150 houses at Taj Centre in Shah Faisal Colony No 1 has been receiving sewage-mixed water for more than a week, posing serious threat to the health of those living in the locality.
A resident of the area said that they had been getting sewage-mixed water because gutters in the area had choked up. Besides, gutter water had also seeped into boring wells.
He said that a few days back area residents met the KWSB executive engineer in his office which is situated close to Taj Centre. They had taken bottles of the filthy water with them to show to the officer to impress upon him the need for rectifying the water supply problem in their locality. The executive engineer had promised them to do the needful at the earliest, but so far things had remained unchanged, he added.
“We are left with no choice but to buy expensive private water tanker to meet out water needs. But we cannot afford to buy these expensive water tankers for a long time,” he said.
He urged the KWSB officials to get their gutter and water supply problems solved without any further loss of time.