KARACHI: Contaminated water, illegal connections, water theft and corruption have increased the water woes of the metropolis, it has been learned.
According to details, water thieves are stealing hundreds of millions of gallons of water by installing illegal water connections through ground boreholes and selling it to industries in various areas of Karachi.
Sources prior to the development informed that the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) is struggling to supply water to the city’s population and facing a loss of billions of rupees because of illegal water connections.
Muhammad Akhlaq, a spokesman for the Water Tanker Association, informed that KWSB had earlier allowed underground water (Salty water) to be supplied to the industries through underground pipelines.
However, according to the spokesman, the water thieves are extracting clean drinking water from the mainline of KWSB and selling the illegal connections to several industries.
He also named several industries that had purchased the illegal water connections, including Afroz Textile Mills, Al-Kurram Textile Mills Gujarat Dyeing Mills, and Hadi Textile Mills. “Before purchasing illegal connections, these mill owners used to buy 100 to 150 tankers from us,” he informed.
