Water-borne diseases on the rise in Tank

TANK: The residents Tuesday asked the Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) to take steps for preventing the spread of water-borne diseases in the area.

“People of our area are fetching unhygienic water from far-off area, causing water-borne diseases,” said Akhtar, a resident of Tank city.He asked the government to take action against Municipal Committee, Tank, for supplying unhygienic water to citizens.

He said increasing cases of abdominal diseases across the area were reported. “Despite the reports by the media neither the local administration nor the provincial government bothered to take practical steps,” City Union Council Nazim Adnan Yousaf Burki deplored.

He said the tehsil municipal administration should replace the decades-old main water pipelines which are rusty. He said the supply-line was chocked which had aggravated the problems. He said that contaminated water was the main cause of the spread of Hepatitis in the area.

However, Tehsil Nazim Haibat Khan said solid measures were being taken to ensure clean drinking water for citizen and over two dozens of tube wells were being installed in different union councils to effectively resolve the issue.