Water crisis grips Olton Road

Res­i­dents of Olton Road, Ari­ma, say wors­en­ing wa­ter short­ages over the past year have forced them to car­ry wa­ter from oth­er com­mu­ni­ties, in­stall tanks and pumps, and scale back their house­hold rou­tines and busi­ness­es. They are call­ing on the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) to ur­gent­ly ad­dress the prob­lem.

Some res­i­dents be­lieve the short­age amounts to po­lit­i­cal vic­tim­i­sa­tion, say­ing the sup­ply has de­te­ri­o­rat­ed since the gen­er­al elec­tion. Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the area yes­ter­day and spoke with res­i­dents who de­scribed an in­creas­ing­ly un­re­li­able sched­ule.

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Dar­ren Flave­ny said that for the past two weeks he has had to fill five-gal­lon bot­tles each day and car­ry them from his fam­i­ly’s home in San­ta Cruz.