Lack of drinking water in Jauharabad
Shortage of drinking water is one of the main problems which peoples are facing. Having three water schemes in the city but most of the citizens don’t have the facility of clean drinking water. There is no pipe line in most part of the city. One water supply line is laid from jauharabad to near the bank of river Jhelum. When that scheme was started they never think of testing the under ground water. Result is that water is not good enough for drinking purpose. People use alternate for getting the drinking water.Most of them fetch water from hand pumps in bottles which are located near a cannal.some of them make water bore near that canal and lay their own pipe line to their house which needs a lot of money and effort. Drinking water has become a big issue now days. The old pipe lines are often leak and some time mixed with the sewerage that is very dangerous for the health especially for children. Many diseases are spreading through polluted water.TMA should take some necessary a