KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has issued notices to the provincial authorities and Karachi Water and Sewerage Board’s managing director to respond to a petition against auctioning of six water hydrants in the city’s different districts.
A division bench of SHC was hearing the petition filed by a civil rights campaigner against the water utility for auctioning water hydrants.
The petitioner contended that the water utility had given an advertisement for auction of hydrants instead of supplying potable piped water to the citizens in the six districts of the city on contract for the period of two years.
He said that the water board had failed to discharge its duties to supply water to the citizens. Instead of improving its supply infrastructure and sewerage systems, it was selling water to hydrants to be supplied through tankers, making water more expensive. The petitioner told the judges that the city dwellers were being compelled to buy water through tankers costing an arm and a leg.