Indian Express 22.07.2010
Soon, 24X7 water supply for Lucknow
Lalmani Verma Tags : non stop water supply, lucknow Posted: Thu Jul 22 2010, 03:10 hrs
Lucknow: If everything goes according to plan, next year, residents of Lucknow and Allahabad may get round-the-clock water supply.The Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam has prepared a detailed project in this regard. The preparations to supply round-the-clock water in parts of Lucknow and Allahabad will begin from October. The trial will start from January 2011.
“There is no shortage of water and we do not require extra water to ensure round-the-clock supply in these cities. The shortcoming lies in the management of the exiting supply system and we would improve in the next five months,” said A K Srivastava, Jal Nigam Managing Director.
“A person requires at least 135 litres of water every day. To meet this demand, in all towns, we are supplying water in three shifts for seven to eight hours. But over 50 per cent of water is wasted due to leakage and pilferage during supply,” he added.
According to officials, the trial has been scheduled to begin from January as there would be no water crisis after the monsoon and during the winter.
During the trial, the Jal Nigam will start round-the-clock supply in Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar and Indira Nagar areas. The supply system of these localities will be isolated from other areas and leakage in pipelines will be carefully checked. Officials have been told to stop water pilferage by introducing metered supply. “With round-the-clock supply, people will not store extra water. They will use only the required quantity,” said an official.
To ensure sufficient water for Lucknow, a special tank with a capacity of 80 million litres per day is being developed at Kathauta lake in Gomti Nagar. It will have a supply system of its own. The work would be completed by the end of this year.
As the tank is coming up in Gomti Nagar and is very close to the Indira Nagar locality, the Jal Nigam has decided to begin trial in both these areas. The tank will be fed by Sharda Canal and the work to connect the two has been completed. Work is underway on the separate pipeline network across Gomti Nagar and Indira Nagar as well. In Allahabad, new tubewells are being set up in small localities to supply water round-the-clock.
