ISLAMABAD: The staff of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) threw the debris of water shortage in Islamabad on the newly elected mayor as the water directorate of the CDA has been shifted to the Metro Municipal Government . When the residents of I/10 Sector of the federal capital approached the CDA’s inquiry office to lodge a compliant regarding scarcity of water, the employees deputed there advised them to go to the mayor for resolving their problem. The staff after watching the anger of the peoples provided them the personal telephone number of Mayor Shiekh Ansar Aziz. The people telephoned the mayor and told him about the shortage of water in the holy month of Ramadan. He received so many calls that he got fed up he switched off his cellular phone at midnight. The shortage of water in different sectors of Islamabad has become so serious that the people cannot find even clean drinking water. Some 300 people lodge their complaints daily but only a few dozen get water through tankers The water problem in the capital could not be resolved due to the inappropriate measures by the CDA, abundant of illegal connections and illicit borings and non attention of the civic body. The sources said that a strong group backed by some political figures and high-ups of the CDA did not want to give power to the newly elected mayor. When Daily Times contacted Sheikh Ansar Aziz, about ensuring the supply of water to the citizens, He said that he received almost hundred calls overnight and tried to facilitate each and every caller He said that the Metro Municipal Government was conducting a meeting with the water directorate to ascertain the reason of the water shortage and to find a permanent solution of the problem. “On one side the civic body is not issuing the notification to transfer the directorates to the municipal government and on the other side it is using odd tactics”, he said . The mayor said that the provision of water to the citizens of Islamabad was his responsibility and he would fulfil it at the earliest adding that resolving the water crisis was his top priority.