The Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) is now squandering the national exchequer by fixing new tiles on the already expensive tiles on the filtration plants in the pretence of repairing them across the city.
According to sources, even the work of installation of tiles on top of old tiles is being done in a very poor and substandard manner. The filtration plants in the city are merely symbolic, with 50% of them shut down and the rest failing to deliver clean water to the city. Due to the poor quality of city water, residents are suffering from hepatitis and gastrointestinal diseases. The Citizen Action Committee sent water samples from the Wasa filtration plants to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) laboratory for examination, all of which were found contaminated.
Citizen Action Committee Chairman Malik Zaheer Awan, while talking to the media on the occasion of visiting the filtration plants of Glass Factory Chowk, Zafarul Haq Road, said: “We will file an anti-corruption complaint against sub-standard repairs and renovations of the filtration plants.”
He alleged that the corrupt mafia officers were turning a blind eye to unethical practices by accepting commissions from contractors. “In addition to damaging the national exchequer, the well-being of the citizens is also being compromised,” he said.
“We will get the water from all filtration plants across the city checked by the NIH lab and if the HIV lube cartridge of all the filtration plants machinery is not replaced in time and the water quality is not supplied as per the hygienic norms, we will start a protest movement and also file a writ against Wasa in the High Court,” he added.
Councillor Itehad Chairman Haji Nasir Bhatti, Nasir Awan, Islahuddin Khan and Waheed Rajab Khan were also present on the occasion.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 2nd, 2024.
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