By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)
Karachi is experiencing a water shortage of about 20 mgd
daily and by the fifth day it had reached the shortage level of 90 mgd because
of the shortage of power supply to its pumping stations.
“The Water Board is unable to supply 650 mgd water which has
by now come down to 450 mgd,” a spokesman of the Karachi Water and Sewerage
Board (KWSB) disclosed, adding that a water crisis had developed in all areas
of the city because power cut by the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC).
The KWSB has now enforced rotated water supply system and
there had been shut down of water in Gulshan-e-Iqbal on November 25.
There will be no water supply to PAF Masroor, Baldia, Sher
Shah, Pak Colony, Old Golimar, Nazimabad and SITE from 8 pm on November 26 for
next the 24 hours, a KWSB announcement said.
It had already been warned the disconnection of power supply
to the pumping stations of the KWSB could cause a severe crisis situation.
The KWSB, a public utility organization, has been supplying
water on a very nominal rate on no profit no loss basis, despite the rate of
recovery being on the lower side.
