The Hindu 26.09.2014
Corporation to regulate water supply to apartments
Water issue:Mayor V.V. Rajan Chellappa addressing the corporation council meetingon Thursday.— Photo: R. Ashok
The municipal corporation has decided to cut down water
supply to apartments following objections raised at the council meeting
here on Thursday.
The civic body has also decided to
regulate drinking water supplied through tankers for hotels,
restaurants, hospitals and commercial establishments. This was announced
by Mayor V.V. Rajan Chellappa and Corporation Commissioner C.
Kathiravan who instructed the corporation staff to give priority to
water requirements of common people.
Their
intervention came in reply to a question raised by zone chairman and
senior councillor P. Salaimuthu who said proliferation of apartments had
resulted in common people not getting adequate supply of water through
tankers.
Mr. Kathiravan said steps would be taken to
regulate water supplied to apartments and commercial establishments. “We
will disconnect illegal water connections. The availability of water is
less than the demand,” he added.
Mr. Chellappa
directed the officials to ensure that water supplied through tankers was
not misused by apartments as complained by the zone chairman.
Earlier,
briefing the councillors about water needs, City Engineer A. Mathuram
said the total requirement for the 100 wards of the city was 205 million
litres per day (MLD) whereas only 115 MLD was available through Vaigai
water schemes.
Hoping that the situation would
improve in the coming days, Mr. Kathiravan said a proposal for Rs.550
crore had been sent to the State government to revamp water
distribution, and to get additional 63 MLD through other sources.
