Kupwara residents hold protest against authorities’ failure to provide potable water
Srinagar: Dozens of people including women and children in Kupwara district of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir staged a protest against the hardships they are enduring due to lack of drinking water for the past many weeks.
According to Kashmir Media Service, carrying empty buckets and utensils as a mark of protest, women and children assembled at Kralpora village of Kralgund in the north Kashmir’s district. They blocked the roads to press for their demand.
“We have been suffering due to lack of drinking water for the last two months but the situation has worsened drastically over the past ten days. The department concerned even after approaching several times hasn’t taken any concrete steps to mitigate our problem,” said a protesting woman.
The protesters said that the ongoing water shortage has disrupted their daily life, forcing them to use contaminated water from local streams. “The situation has particularly affected women from Kralpora village, who are forced to walk long distances to manage household water needs. We spend hours every day fetching water,” they said.
“The department concerned has taken us for a ride, forcing us to register our protest. We had pleaded for a water tanker on a daily basis but even that seemed to be a distant dream for us,” said an elderly protestor.
The protesting women said that if their demand was not fulfilled, they would be forced to hit the roads again.
