PUNE: Residents across the city have been lately complaining about restricted or low-pressure water supply in their respective areas. However, there has been no announcement to this effect from the water department of the Pune Municipal Corporation.

When contacted, Pramod Nirbhavne, head of water supply department, said normal quota of water was being supplied to all areas in the city. "There is no change in plans regarding water supply. Water is being supplied in full force to all areas, as of now. We are constantly in touch with the irrigation department and they haven't signalled us yet that there is less water in the dam. Only if the monsoon is delayed, then we will have to release water once a day," Nirbhavne said.

But citizens said there was certainly a drop in water supply, that too, in the absence of an official announcement. "Maybe, the civic officials want to be on the safe side by not making it public that less water was being supplied, but our area is certainly facing shortage of water. There is significant difference in the supply force during the evenings. The morning supply is fine," Sheetal Tambe, a resident of Aranyeshwar, told TOI.

Residents from Sahakarnagar, Bibvewadi, some peth areas, Sus, Kharadi, NIBM road and Bhosalenagar have been sending complaints to their ward offices. Navi Peth resident Girija Mhaskar said, the society tank, normally, gets filled with the evening-hour water supply, but water has been barely trickling into the tank for the last few days.

Residents of societies in Bhosalenagar, which are located at an elevation, have for days together been complaining to the PMC, but to no avail. "If there is a reduction in the water supply, we are the first ones to be affected just like it is happening now. All complaints to the civic body have fallen on deaf ears," said Nitin Suryavanshi, a resident of the area.

However, Nirbhavne maintained that all were just one-off cases and that there was no change in water supply.