The Indian Express 08.08.2012
KMC to install meters to stop water wastage
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will install 150 water flow
meters to stop wastage of piped water in the city. The work will cost
Rs 10 crore, out of which Rs 3 crore will be spent for installation and
RS 7 crore would be the cost of the meters, KMC Mayor Sovan Chatterjee
said.
A total 300 million gallons of piped water is supplied by KMC per
day but 30 per cent of it is wasted due to leakage and other reasons,
he said. The flow meters will identify where the leakages are and where
the water is flowing out. “Even if we can plug 10 per cent of the water
wasted, the shortage of piped water in the city can be reduced to a
great extent,” he said. KMC budget allocation for supplying filtered
water to the city is a hefty RS 250 crore.
