The Times of India                  11.05.2013

Civic body scales up water supply to Baroda

VADODARA: With mercury rising consistently, the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has been forced to increase water supply to the city as demand has shot up. The VMC has scaled up water supply to the city by 60 lakh gallons.

According to VMC officials, the consumption for water had been increasing since last month as mercury had been rising consistently. Officials said the sources supplying water to the city had sufficient water for the coming days.

VMC executive engineer A M Makwana said the city needed 900 lakh gallons of water everyday. "While the demand has gone up, the additional 60 lakh gallons are sufficient to take care of it," he said.

The city depends on two major water sources - the Ajwa reservoir and the French wells in Mahi at Fajalpur - for supply of water. The third major source that is coming up is the water works at Khanpur where there is a plan for drawing water from a Narmada project canal and purifying it for supply to the city's western parts. But the project is yet to take off.