KARACHI, Oct 10: Several parts of the city have been experiencing acute water shortage for the last couple of days mainly owing to frequent power failures and fluctuations at the KWSB’s major water installations.

The worst-hit areas include society areas, Khudadad Colony, different sectors of North Karachi, New Karachi, certain blocks of North Nazimabad and parts of Nazimabad and the Old City Area.

Residents of the affected localities complained that frequent power failures coupled with acute water shortage have made their lives miserable in the current hot and dry weather.

Attributing the cause of water shortage to frequent power failures and fluctuations at the KWSB’s Kidney Hill Reservoir, North-East Karachi pumping station and Civic Centre’s LSR, the KWSB officials said that they were not being able to implement the water supplying schedule of various parts of the city for the last two days as power failures and fluctuations at its installations, particularly during the last two nights, had become a matter of routine.

Though the worst affected areas are those where water is supplied after every 48 hours, the localities whose turn of receiving water comes on alternative days are also facing acute water shortage mainly because of frequent power failures, they added.

Meanwhile, residents of different societies, including PECHS Block 2 and Sindhi Muslim Housing Society said that since the frequent power failures had become a matter of routine in their locality, they had not received a single drop of water during the last three days as water to their locality is supplied at nights.

In North Karachi Sector 7/D-2 area, people said they experience power failures almost daily which ultimately causes water shortage. They urged the authorities to ensure uninterrupted power supply to their locality so that water supply schedule is not disturbed.

KWSB OFFICIAL SLATED: Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town’s Nazim, Abdul Wahab, has demanded of the city Nazim Naimatullah Khan, to take disciplinary action against the KWSB chief engineer (Water supply) as he was not cooperating with him in resolving the lingering the water issue of Mujahid Colony.

Accusing the official of not restoring water supply to the over 400 houses of Mujahid Colony, he said that although the owners of all those houses had got their water connections regularised, they were still deprived of water owing to the attitude of the official.

LEAKAGE: Water gushing out from a leaking pipeline, near House No C-101, Block A, North Nazimabad has inundated a number of streets of the locality, causing inconvenience to the residents and passersby.

In a press release issued on Tuesday, the general secretary of the locality’s Anjuman-i-Falah, regretted that although they had brought the issue into the notice of the KWSB’s North Nazimabad XEN office, no one had so far bothered to repair the leaking pipeline.

He also complained that the filthy water overflowing from some choked sewerage lines, near new KDA Flats site, had become a nuisance for the residents of the locality in general and those residing in the vicinity of the houses, starting from C-168-A to C-196, in particular.