Underground water level in Islamabad, Pindi fast going down Zubair Qureshi Water supply situation to Islamabad and Rawalpindi is worsening with each passing day and if necessary measures are taken it is going to turn into a Karachi-like water crisis in the days to come.
The sources said that the underground water level is depleting due to fewer rains and excessive extraction of underground water by the fast expanding federal capital through tube wells and hand pumps.
In Pindi too, city and Cantt areas both, the civic bodies including RCB and CCB are left with only one month to supply to the city.
Water in Khanpur Dam has dried completely which is the main source of supply.
According to one local official in Pindi, the RCB is trying its best to provide water to its consumers, however, due to shortfall of rains and dry weather water has fallen considerably in dams and fallen beyond the dead level in Khanpur Dam.
“It is a natural calamity.
Owing to the present situation of water crisis persisting, the consumers are advised not to waste even a single drop of water.
On one hand, the civic bodies claim about water shortage, but, on the other hand, the private tanker mafia has sufficient water to supply to the people through tankers.
The residents of different areas suffer most as they had to buy water from the tanker mafia who charged them at their will in the holy month of Ramazan.
Now, the holy month is over yet water level is receding and we are left at the mercy of the water tanker mafia, said Zafar a resident in the Rehman Abad.