RAWALPINDI - The residents of Adiala Road Jahrahi Stop and adjacent areas are facing acute water shortage for the last several days in Rawalpindi district.
The influential of the area seemed helpless to resolve the issue.
The residents including Rizwan Chatta, Zahoor, Adalat, Rab Nawaz, Ghulam Abbas, Riaz, Fayyaz, Said Rasool, Ali Nawaz, Shakeel Ahmed, Sheikh Tasleem, Muhammad Javed, Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Akram, Wasiq Razzak, and Sajjad Sadiq threatened to lodge a protest against Water and Sanitation Agency for not providing water.
A complainant of Adiala Road Tariq Khan said, “We have to fetch water from far flung areas to meet the daily needs.
He said, “We can’t afford a water tank that is costly and unaffordable and we have to pay Rs1,800 twice in a week to get water from this source.”
Another resident Waheed Khan alleged that the tanker mafia is looting and making money by selling water at high prices. A complainant Aziz Malik said repeated complaints have been lodged but no action is taken to provide the basic need.