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Karachi to face water shortage until Thursday, says KWSB spokesperson
Reports suggest shortage was jointly created by water board, govt officials to benefit local tanker mafia
Pakistan has one of the world’s highest rates of water use and one of the lowest of productivity
Workers claim the plants frequently develop faults because of substandard quality of machinery
Hundreds of thousands of cattle moved to adjacent district due to water shortage
Aab-e-Pak Authority remains non-functional
‘Megacity suffers from a deficit of 135 MGD, receives a total of 65 MGD of water’
WASA seeks review of CDWP’s suggestion to consider diversion of allocation to other cities
Many residents work in govt departments and go to work daily, requiring water to disinfect themselves
As armed group seeks to use the water cut-off as pressure to force the release of detained family members