The Hindu        15.09.2016    

Corporation assures people of adequate drinking water

Following protests by residents and black flag
demonstrations in various pockets in the city, the Coimbatore
Corporation has assured residents of adequate supply of drinking water.

In
a release, the Corporation had said that for the 18.02 lakh people in
the city, the Corporation was supplying water through various schemes.

For
the residents it supplied water through Siruvani (62 million litres a
day), Pilloor I (13 mld), Pilloor II (110 mld),
Kavundampalayam-Vadavalli (11 mld) and Aliyar (7.8 mld) schemes. In all,
it supplied 203.60 mld.

In wards that come under the
Singanallur Assembly constituency (Wards 37, 38, 39, 40, 53, 55, 56,
57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 74 and 75), it was until
recently supplying water from the main storage reservoir in Ganapathy
through the 500 mm pipeline. But due to leakage in the pipeline and
supply loss, the residents were getting water only once in 12 to 14
days.

Pipeline

Now,
the Corporation supplied water from the Ganapathy tank to D.J. Nagar
tank through the newly laid 1,100 – 700 mm pipeline and that had
resulted in improvement in water distribution – once in a week supply.

Likewise,
the Corporation had also addressed the delay in water supply to
residents in Wards 38 and 39 by quickly repairing the damages to
pipelines caused during the execution of the road overbridge across the
railway crossing.

In areas it supplied Siruvani
water, it was able to maintain the supply at once-in-six-days even
though the water level was less than that of last year by 15.61 feet.

Adequate supply

It was taking all steps to ensure adequate supply of water, it added.