The Hindu 27.03.2017
Change in water supply schedule from today
The water level at AMR Power Ltd.’s dam at Shamboor upstream Thumbe
stood at 5.35 m on Sunday against the maximum storage level of 6.25
m.FILE PHOTO
Now, round-the-clock water supply for 72 hours
After supplying water once in every 36 hours in the city for a week,
Mangaluru City Corporation has announced a change in the schedule from
Monday.
Starting from March 27, the city will get water supply
round-the-clock for three days (for 72 hours) and then, it will go
without water for two days (48 hours). The same schedule would be
repeated week on week.
This step, Mayor Kavita Sanil said, is to ensure that water reached areas located uphill in the city.
She
said that the corporation received complaints that some houses in the
upper reaches in wards such as Falnir and Kankanady-Valencia did not get
water after the 36-hour supply schedule was adopted.
The Mayor
said that she was appealing to the people to reduce water consumption
for the next two months. She has been receiving complaints that in many
areas people were wasting fresh water by spraying it on the roads to
suppress dust.
There was a
specific complaint that a house owner in Kankanady ward was letting
water supplied by the corporation into the domestic well.
The water supply officials went to the house and warned the owner.
The
Mayor said that toilet flush consumed more water. In the apartment she
was living in Bejai, she convinced the owners of 22 flats and ensured
that they adjusted the flush to let out less water. Thus, the apartment
has reduced its water consumption to a great extent. Flat owners and
resident associations of apartments should consider it seriously to save
water.
Meanwhile, according to a water supply engineer, the water
level at the Thumbe vented dam supplying water to the city stood at
4.90 m on Sunday against the maximum storage capacity of 5 m. The water
level at the vented dam of AMR Power Pvt. Ltd. at Shambhoor on the
upstream of Thumbe stood at 5.35 m against the maximum storage level of
6.25 m.
The corporation stopped daily water supply on March 20.
