RAWALPINDI– Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) has cut off the electricity connection of Sungjani water filtration plant due to non-payment of bills. Sources said that as a result of disconnection of electricity, water supply to Capital Development Authority (CDA), Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) and Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has been stopped. Sungjani water plant supplies water to Rawalpindi Cantt, Rawalpindi City and Islamabad. RCB, CDA and WASA have to pay a big amount of arrears to IESCO. The electricity of Sungjani plant will not be restored unless the three institutions make payments to IESCO, sources added.
The issue would give way to scarcity of water in the respective areas of the twin cities.