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Karachi's upwards growth is a solution for accommodating more people on small ground area, but it is also a problem for agencies like Karachi Water & Sewage Board, KESC and Sui Southern etc. These agencies have to redo their systems to cope with big needs that big buildings (big population) bring with them.
Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) and all (six) cantonment boards (CBs) have been allowing hi-rise buildings and huge housing/ commercial complexes. This causes additional burden on the already inadequate water and sewerage and power infrastructure of the city.
Under this policy, SBCA and CBs keep approving plans without seeking a no-objection certificate from KWSB, KESC and SSGC despite the fact that the utilities cannot replace their old and hence small capacity systems due to financial and time constraints.
According to sources in these agencies, neither SBCA nor CBs have ever sought their opinions / NOCs before approving plans of huge complexes.
KWSB head Engr. Misbahuddin Farid raised the point during a recent presentation before the city's industrialists who had opposed the recent hike in water tariff. SBCA and...