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Sharjah residents continue to endure power cuts at night
Gas supply problems forcing Sewa to rotate interruptions
- By Mahmood Saberi, Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:00 July 29, 2010
- Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/Gulf News
- Residents are forced to pitch camp in dark alleys as power interruptions make staying indoors unbearable.
Sharjah: The lights still go off every night for about three hours in some industrial areas of Sharjah and residents said the hardships from the lack of power are too much to bear.
A resident living off the BMW Road said whenever the power failures occurred people from his apartment went down to the parking lot, carrying pillows to sleep in their cars.
"You can't keep going to your friend's place to stay with them," said Anthony.
On Tuesday the lights were out from 6.15pm to 9.30pm, he said.
Many residential apartments in Sharjah have small shops that sell spare parts or fix tyres and they are running their business with the help of power generators.
Noxious vapours
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The noxious vapours from the generators rise up to the residential flats, he said.
And the only response the residents said they had received from the Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (Sewa) hotline was: "Inshallah, soon".
The power failures have been daily in Industrial areas, 2, 3, 13 and the lights are out for more than three hours.
In the Free Zone, the jewellery park which houses about 80 factories is still facing power interruptions. An owner of a jewellery workshop said on Tuesday lights went out from 9.30 pm till midnight.
"About 250 people are living in labour accommodation here. They can't cook because of the outages," he said.
According to Zainuddin in Industrial Area 3, Tuesday night was again bad as the power went out at 6pm and returned at 9pm.
"My wife just had a baby and she can't come down into the open," he said. "A boy in one of the flats has chicken pox and is suffering from the blackouts," he said.
Sewa said recently that there was a glitch in the gas supply and it was forced to roll the power cut downs across the districts.
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