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Cold drinking water for free soon

Saturday, 11 May 2013 06:43 administrator
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The Hindu                11.05.2013

Cold drinking water for free soon

Staff Reporter

The residents of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation may soon have cold drinking water to quench their thirst in the scorching heat. The corporation is in the process of chalking out the logistics, said the SDMC Mayor Sarita Choudhary on Friday. First the scheme would be launched on a pilot basis.

“We have identified some areas. It is a pilot project under which drinking water will be made available to the citizens. We are exploring the possibilities before us. The scheme may be implemented on the PPP mode or it can directly be funded by the relevant department,” she said.

Ms. Choudhary also announced that in the coming year all the 86 rural and 115 urbanised villages would be developed and be provided with facilities like street light, proper drainage system, parks and better health services.

“The development of unauthorised colonies and rural areas are my top-most priority. There is a budgetary provision of Rs.75 crore for development of rural areas. Layout plan for unauthorised colonies will be prepared in this year. We have already prepared layout plans for four colonies,” Ms. Choudhary said.

 

Plan to supply drinking water to all urban areas

Friday, 10 May 2013 05:31 administrator
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The Hindu                  10.05.2013

Plan to supply drinking water to all urban areas

Staff Reporter

State government has come out with Rs. 4,000-crore investment projection

The State government has come out with an investment projection involving Rs. 4,000 crore to cover all urban areas with drinking water supply in the State.

Investment to be made in a phased manner will span over 10 years. The investment will take care of operation and maintenance of water supply infrastructures during the period.

According to sources in the Housing and Urban Development Department, within next five years, 50 per cent coverage will be achieved in uncovered and partially covered wards of urban local bodies, non-revenue water is planned to be reduced to 30 per cent and 50 per cent household metering has been proposed to be achieved in three municipal corporations.

Currently, the State government is finalising a policy on drinking water supply to ULBs. The draft will be placed before the Cabinet by the end of this month. According HUD Department, focus will now be on smaller project for improving coverage of water supply. Smaller projects will be taken up in more numbers in uncovered and partially covered wards.

Fund provision

Fund provision of Rs. 50 lakh each to three municipal corporations, Rs. 30 lakh each to 37 municipalities and Rs. 20 lakh each to Notified Area Councils will be made which means the aggregate project cost should not exceed twice the limit prescribed, as most of the projects are to be completed during the current financial year.

Water demand

As per the recent review meeting on drinking water supply to urban areas, the present water demand of all ULBs of the State is 802.74 Million Litres per Day (MLD) and the current supply by PHEO is 793.65 MLD.

Although the overall demand and supply gap in the State is very less, there is a huge gap in the supply levels across different ULBs. On the basis of per capita supply level, 11 ULBs have more than 135 lpcd (litre per capita per day), 13 have 100 - 135 lpcd, 30 have 70 - 135 lpcd and 49 ULBs have less than 70 Ipcd. Out of total 1,850 wards in all ULBs, 145 wards are still uncovered and 552 wards are partially covered.

In terms of Service Level Benchmark Indicator, house connection coverage in 63 NACs is 16 per cent.

 

Heavy rains disrupt water supply in city

Thursday, 09 May 2013 09:58 administrator
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Deccan Chronicle               09.05.2013

Heavy rains disrupt water supply in city

Hyderabad: High winds and heavy rain in the Singur dam area overnight threw the drinking water supply out of gear in the city on Wednesday, as the main 33 KV electricity line snapped. Over two lakh connections were affected with either no water supply at all or very little water at low pressure.

The Water Board depends mainly on the 33 KV line coming from Sadashivpet, to pump water from the Singur dam to the city. There was no power supply from 6 pm to 11 pm on Tuesday and pumping of water from Singur Phase-III and Phase-IV stopped. Around 75 MGD of water is supplied from Phase-III and IV. Though an alternative 11 KV line was given after 11 pm, it couldn’t take too much load and pumping was thus below normal.

For some citizens, the dry taps was a double whammy. “Wednesday is a scheduled supply date. If we miss the supply today, we will get it only on Friday. That makes it four days in a row (without water). No one can store water that is sufficient for four days.

The Water Board should inform citizens about water supply schedule and breakdown in supply through SMSes. We get monthly water bill updates in our cellphone numbers. Then why don’t they inform us about the water supply interruptions too through SMSes?” asked K. Trideep Nath, a resident of Sanjeev Reddy Nagar.

MIM MLA Afsar Khan was flooded with calls from residents in Karwan and surroundings. He called up the Water Board officials and expressed ire over the power breakdown on the day water is supplied in the areas that come under his Assembly segment.

Water Board chief general manager Sundar Ram Reddy said there was a shortage of only 20 MGD of the total 75 MGD of water, as water was pumped through the 11 KV line too.

However, a large number of areas did not get water on Wednesday morning. Normal water supply was restored only in the evening.

 
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