HYDERABAD, May 18: Hesco’s unannounced loadshedding is costing people living in various pockets of the city dearly because they are not only experiencing acute water shortage but paying exorbitant rates to private water tanker owners for getting supply of water.

Almost all water reservoirs of Wasa have been hit by non-supply of electricity while on account of non-availability of required number of water tankers the Wasa is unable to reach any locality hit by water shortage.

A long line of private water tankers could be seen on the Fatima Jinnah Road water reservoir of Wasa being filled with water to be carred to various areas that are getting no supply for several days and are dependent on tankers.

Wasa Managing Director Bashir Awan has said that water supply is badly hit due to non-supply of electricity at water reservoirs for six to eight hours a day.

He said that private tankers are supplying water but Wasa is also trying its level best to supply water to residents free of cost through its six vehicles.

Reports said that whenever there is a power outage at water reservoir, the entire water supply cycle gets reversed.

Almost all main points of Wasa’s water storage tanks like new and old filter plants, Hussainabad, unit-4 Latifabad, Phuleli are facing power cuts on a daily basis for six to eight hours.

According to the MD Wasa tail-end localities of the city like unit-5, 8, 11, 12, Kohsar, Sehrish Nagar, Abdullah town, Prince town, Tando Yousuf, Islamabad Mohallah, Gau Shal, Noorani Basti are facing water shortage. However, he said, in some of these areas only one or two streets are hit by water shortage.

Water tanker owners charge exorbitantly from people who need water. Residents of plazas and flats are worst sufferers because their underground water storage tanks are not supplied with water from Wasa and water tankers’ supply costs a lot.

In some areas water supply is being ensured by Wasa but if area(s) in question are hit by power breakdown then residents couldn’t fill their water storage facilities.

Hesco’s unannounced loadshedding is becoming a financial and mental burden on people as they are unable to get respite from any quarter.

“I had to come myself to take water tanker to my area. We had been seeking for quite some time. We can’t afford private tanker to supply us water because of their huge cost,” said a resident of Qasimabad who was taking TMA’s tanker to his area.

HOUSING SOCIETY: The Kohsar Residents Welfare Association has accused the administrator of the HDA Employees Cooperative Housing Society of corrupt practices and called upon the government to remove its administrator without any delay and resolve the problems of the residents.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Sunday, S Zillay Hussnain Naqvi and other office-bearers said that the housing society which had come into existence in 1986 was spread over 100 acres of land and it had 1,165 plots of different categories.

They said that due to internecine fighting among the office-bearers of the society, Sindh government had appointed an administrator in 2003 to manage the affairs of the society which further aggravated the situation.

They said that in order to rectify the situation, the residents of the area formed an association on August 17, 2003 which managed to get gas and power connections with the help of the then administrator, Abdul Majeed Rajput.

They said after changing many administrators, a grade-11 officer, Sajid Abdul Karim Sario was appointed administrator on grade-17 post.

The office-bearers of the association claimed that the present administrator was corrupt and was doing nothing to resolve the problems of the residents.

They said that it was due to the efforts of the district nazim and the taluka nazim of Latifabad that the water problem of the residents was resolved.

They appealed to the managing director of cooperative societies of Sindh and the provincial minister and secretary concerned to immediately remove the present administrator, order the elections of the society and hold audit of accounts of the society.