Pipri power restored, Karachi water supply resumes

Karachi's water supply was disrupted on 23 September after a power breakdown at the Pipri Pumping Station, and later resumed once electricity was restored, according to the Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation and MM News.

A spokesperson for the Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation said electricity supply to the pumping station was completely suspended following a K-Electric power breakdown, forcing water pumping from the facility to stop immediately. The outage cut water supply to several areas of the city.

The spokesperson told ProPakistani that water supply to the affected neighbourhoods would resume as soon as electricity was restored at the station. MM News reported later in the day that power had been restored at Pipri Pumping Station and that water supply to Karachi had resumed.

The new disruption followed a prolonged outage last week at the Dhabeji Pumping Station, another key facility feeding Karachi. According to the Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation, K-Electric restored power to parts of Dhabeji after a 17-hour outage. Electricity was restored to the Third Phase, Fourth Phase, and one feeder of the K-III Pump House, while another feeder of the K-III Pump House remained without power at the time.

The corporation said once electricity supply was fully restored, eight of the 10 affected pumps were brought back into operation and water supply to the affected areas was restored. The Dhabeji breakdown caused a water shortfall of 198 million gallons for Karachi, it added.

The reports did not specify how many neighbourhoods were affected by the Pipri outage, and K-Electric had not issued a separate public statement on the incident in the sources reviewed.

Karachi's bulk water supply depends on pumping stations such as Pipri and Dhabeji to move water from source lines into the city's distribution network. Interruptions at these facilities reduce pressure and can leave higher-lying neighbourhoods without supply.