Sharjah: Residents of some areas in Sharjah have complained of disruptions in water supply without any notice.
When contacted, the staff at Sharjah Water and Electricity Authority’s (Sewa) emergency call centre said the water disruption was caused by the bursting of a 32-inch pipeline in Al Khan area and the water supply has been affected in some parts of Al Nahda, Al Mamzar, Al Majaz and Abu Shagara.
“Our people are working (to fix the line) for the past two days. We are trying to complete it by tonight. It will be done by tomorrow morning for sure,” the call centre staff said late on Thursday evening.
Residents said they were also given the same explanation when they rang up Sewa. However, they complained that they have been facing huge difficulties with no alternative arrangements made by the building managements.
Sunil Dutt, a resident of Al Qadeseyah Towers in Al Nahda, told Gulf News that occupants of hundreds of flats in the multi-storey buildings in the area have been suffering due to the water crisis in the hot weather.
“The water supply stopped in our building by Tuesday midnight. It came just for some time yesterday (Wednesday) and stopped again … and today there is no water yet,” he said around 6.30pm.
“I went to my brother’s house in Dubai yesterday. Since nobody was answering the calls at the building management’s office, I had to come all the way back to see for myself if the water supply is back by this afternoon. It wasn’t,” he said.
Divya Krishnakumar, a resident in another part of Al Nahda which is not affected, said her cousin whose building is without water went to her apartment to take a shower on Wednesday.
Mukhtar, an employee with Dar Al Nahda Cafeteria in Abdul Aziz Al Majid building, said the water supply that stopped on Wednesday came back for a couple of hours on Thursday. “It has stopped again … It’s a very difficult situation for us. We are using bottled water even for cleaning,” he said.
According to Dutt, building managements in the area have washed their hands off the water crisis, passing the buck to Sewa. “When people are finding it difficult to finish their basic needs, they should get water in big trucks and fill the tanks here … But they are saying there is no provision for parking big water trucks here,” he lamented.
