Residents of Muslim Colony in Arya Mohallah have demanded of the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) to provide clean drinking water in their area as they are receiving contaminated water.
Owing to consumption of toxic water the residents of Muslim Colony had been suffering from various stomach diseases.
Residents said that water being supplied to their homes by WASA got mixed with sewerage water due to leakage of a water pipeline. Malik Tariq, Safeer Hussian, Agha Nadeem and many others said they feared the spread of stomach diseases due to the toxic water and demanded from WASA officials to take samples of the toxic water and ensure provision of clean drinking water in the locality.
When contacted, WASA Managing Director Raja Shoukat Mehmood said that he had issued directions to take samples of the contaminated water for laboratory testing and ensured that clean water would be provided to the residents soon.