Hyderabad, March 9 -- Residents of Daulat Gulshan Colony in Tolichowki have had enough. An overflowing drainage system and a road that has been dug up since January 26 have made daily life increasingly difficult, and every attempt to get authorities to act, they say, has hit a wall.

Mohammad Abdul Sami, an advocate and general secretary of the colony's welfare association, says the existing drainage pipeline has simply not kept pace with the colony's growing population. The result is sewage water spills over onto the street roughly once every two weeks.

"The road works started on January 26, but we wanted the drainage issue sorted before the road was completed," Sami told Saisat.com. "It's been a month and nothing has moved. The overflo...