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Survey on water consumption in city

Monday, 13 July 2009 03:23 administrator
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The Hindu 13.07.2009

Survey on water consumption in city

Staff Reporter

KOCHI: A survey on the water consumption pattern and number of people depending on public taps for drinking water will be undertaken soon. The survey is being planned to generate a baseline data for the ‘Water connection for all’ project of the Kochi Corporation, said C.K. Manisankar, Deputy Mayor of the Kochi Corporation.

The Corporation has promised in its budget to provide piped drinking water connections to all the families in the city which do not have the connection.

According to the data available with the Corporation, there are 27,996 families in the city who do not have the piped water connection. These families are banking on the public taps for collecting drinking water and each family will have to spend up to seven hours for collecting the water.

The civic authorities arrived at these figures using the data collected by the neighbourhood committees. The administration needs an authentic and accurate data on the water consumption pattern and the number of consumers depending on public taps for planning the project, he said.

The Project Engineer and officials concerned have been asked to complete the paper works for the project.

 

 

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Sunday, 12 July 2009 13:41 administrator
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Municipalities face severe water crisis

Sunday, 12 July 2009 11:39 administrator
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The Hindu 12.07.2009

Municipalities face severe water crisis

Staff Reporter

Guntur needs 105 MLD but gets 74.54 MLD

 

Tenali and Bapatla also facing water shortage

Situation precarious in Macherla, Vinukonda and Piduguralla

GUNTUR: Most of the municipalities, including the Guntur Municipal Corporation, are in the grip of a severe scarcity of drinking water, even as the district is witnessing extended summer season.

The issue found its echo at the District Review Meeting with most of the elected representatives training their guns on the officials and the latter pleading helplessness.

In Guntur, as against the expected requirement of 105 Million Litres per Day (MLD), the city is getting a supply of just 74.54 MLD which is hardly sufficient for a population of 7 lakh. Municipal Commissioner K. Ilambarthi said that works relating to laying of second pipeline from the raw water source to the filtration plant at Takkelapadu would speed up once the land acquisition problems on the National Highway No 5 were complete. This pipeline would augment the water supply by 45 MLD, he said and added the number of tankers would be increased to meet the demands. The situation is no better in Bapatla, where the water levels at the Summer Storage Tank are sufficient for just 22 days. About 57 lakh litres of water which is being lifted from Tummala canal is being used now, but this is hardly sufficient for a population of 68, 000.

In Tenali, against the daily requirement of 35.20 lakh litres, the municipality was supplying about 30 lakh litres, while in Ponnur the situation is far better with the water levels at the SS tank sufficient for 101 days.

The situation in municipalities in Palnadu region, Macherla, Vinukonda, Piduguralla is precarious with the water levels hovering below the average levels.

The commissioners have pleaded their helplessness by stating the water levels would be just sufficient for the coming 15 days.

Hope for rain

Most of the municipalities are pinning their hopes on early rains and the completion of several drinking water pending projects.

Last Updated on Sunday, 12 July 2009 11:40
 
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