KARACHI, July 16: Complaints have been received from different parts of the city about contaminated water being received and giving rise to diarrhoea and nausea and the sale as well of the so-called mine-ral water in the affected localities.
Most such complaints have been received from North Karachi’s Sector 5-M, Liaqatabad No 6, Federal B’ Area’s Block 16, Sharifabad’s apartments building ‘Zeenat Square’, Rehri Goth and Sakhi Hassan’s Hussain Market.
Residents of the affected localities regretted that although the cases of diarrhoea and nausea were increasing in their localities owing to continuous supply of stinking water, the concerned officials of the KWSB seemed least interested in rectifying the fault responsible for contaminated water.
Suspecting that sewage water might be seeping into their pipelines, they demanded of the city Nazim and the senior officials of the KWSB to immediately rectify the fault responsible for contaminated water so that they could be saved from falling sick due to consumption of dirty water.
Earlier, only some blocks of Federal B’ Area were getting muddy water but the complaints have now started coming from other localities and some of these include parts of PECHS Block 6, Federal B’ Area’s Block 14, Lyari, Mithadar and its adjoining areas.
Several parts of the city are either completely dry or have been getting scant supply for the last four or five days in the current hot weather.
Residents of Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s Block 4-A complained that their locality had been without water for the last three days and the KWSB’s concerned officials, on being told about the problem, expressed ignorance, saying that though they had not received any such complain from the locality, the officials concerned will be asked to look into the matter.
The other localities which are either getting scant supply or have been without water for the last couple of days include Old Golimar’s Mauladad village, Clifton’s block 2, Kharadar, Lyari’s Phool Pati Lane and Dariabad, North Karachi’s sector 5-C-1, 5-D and parts of Buffer Zone.
The residents of the affected localities of Lyari, Kharadar and North Karachi said that since the water issue in their localities cropped up off and on they had to consume subsoil unhygienic water as they could not afford to buy private water tankers which were being sold at exorbitant rates.
Urging the city Nazim and the KWSB’s senior officials to order an inquiry to ascertain the actual causes of the chronic water issue, they said that in case someone from their localities became victim of some serious abdomen diseases, they would have no choice but to file a suit in a court of law.