KARACHI, April 7: Residents of different parts of the Old City area went without water for the second consecutive day on Thursday.

The hard-hit areas include Ranchorre Line, Jubilee Cinema and parts of Saddar, Lyari, Burns Road area, Garden East, Garden West and Soldier Bazaar. Acute water shortage also persisted in Clifton’s blocks 2, 5 and 7 besides Mehmoodabad.

Residents of Ranchorre Line area severely criticized the KWSB for not restoring the water supply on Thursday after maintaining the suspension throughout the previous day. “Why did they announce a one-day suspension if they were not going to provide water for two days or possibly more?” they questioned.

Complaints of an acute water shortage have also been received from Orangi’s Sector 11 1/2, Sector 16, Aziz Nagar, Ghausia Baluch Colony, Sector 15-D’s Thorani Goth, Bangla Bazaar, Sector 14, Block L of Sector 10 and Pakistan Bazaar.

The localities which were not supplied water on Thursday as a part of the KWSB’s plan of diverting Indus water to the areas hooked to Hub Dam source included Landhi, Korangi, Defence Housing Authority, National Refinery, Karachi Port Trust, Pakistan Railways, PAF (Korangi) Base and its adjoining areas.

Water supply to Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s blocks 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 10- A, 13-A, 13-B, 16, 17 and 18 would remain suspended on Friday.

FILTERED WATER: Arrangements have been finalized to supply filtered water to different blocks of Gulshan-i-Iqbal, University of Karachi and the NED University of Engineering and Technology, a spokesman for the KWSB said here on Thursday.