HYDERABAD - The Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA) has said that the water shortage at Kotri barrage down­stream in the river Indus and the extended hours of load shedding have creat­ed a shortfall of water in many parts of the city. In a statement issued here on Friday, the authority informed that a letter had been written to the Sindh Irrigation Department to address the issue of wa­ter availability for the fil­tration plants of the Wa­ter and Sanitation Agency (WASA), a subsidiary of the HDA. The authority pointed out that another reason behind the short­age was the extended hours of load shedding as well as the technical faults in the transmission system which resulted in the disruption of the water supply from the filtration plants and the pumping stations. The HDA has requested the Sindh Irrigation Depart­ment to address the issue in question as a top prior­ity because the citizens were suffering owing to the shortage.