Residents lament lack of a permanent solution.
Hyderabad: Complaints of water pollution are pouring in from various parts of the old city after incessant rains.
The situation is more or less similar across the older parts of the city including Bahadurpura, Chandulal Baradari, Falaknuma, Azampura, Sultan Shahi, Rikabgunj and Charminar.
“Whenever it rains and sewerage lines get filled with rain and drain water, the water seeps into the drinking water lines.
When the board officials release the water, the dirty water is supplied for at least half an hour,” she complained.
Local residents said the board officials had planned to lay a new drinking water supply line, but despite the problem occurring for the second time after Ramzan, not much has been done.
Similar complaints have poured in from the Doodh Bowli area, where Yadaiah, a local resident pointed out that they faced problems when the sewerage lines in the area got choked.
At Rikabgunj, in the Charminar area, the residents complained about supply of polluted water for 20 minutes whenever the water was supplied by the board.
At Chandulal Baradari and Bilalnagar, the residents have been facing the polluted water problem for the last one year.
A woman, Syeda Ghousia, from Azampura complained that the families were forced to get purified water from private suppliers for fear of falling ill. More complaints have also poured in from areas of Falaknuma, Aliabad, Sultanshahi and other areas of the old city.