KARACHI: The repair of 84-inch main water line on University Road was completed on Thursday and the water supply to the affected areas is expected to be restored by Friday morning, said a spokesman for the Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation (KWSC).

Most city areas have been waiting for over two weeks to get the water supply restored following three consecutive leakages developed in the main line crossing the alignment of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Red Line project on main University Road.

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Residents of the affected areas, that included Clifton, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, parts of Jamshed Town, PECHS, SMCHS, Lyari, Saddar, Burns Road, Liaquatabad and old city areas, said that they had been without a drop of tap water for the past two weeks.

The city has remained short of 150 million gallons per day (MGD) of water for the past two weeks after the main line burst that flooded the main road near Karachi University.

Published in Dawn, December 20th, 2024