The Hindu 25.03.2013
Treated water, 42 years later
Water from Karichal scheme used to be just chlorinated.
Forty-two years after it was launched, the Karichal Water Supply Scheme has finally started distributing treated drinking water.
Launched
in 1971 as the Poovar-Karichal Water Supply Scheme, this project of the
KWA reached out to a region perennially deprived of drinking water —
the State capital’s coastal belt comprising areas like Kanjiramkulam,
Karumkulam, Poovar, and Puthiyathura. However, since the quality of
water supplied through the scheme, which did not have a water treatment
plant, did not quite meet the expected standards, criticism and
complaints were frequent. The only ‘treatment’ done by KWA so far was to
chlorinate the water. Now, with the addition of a water treatment plant
at the Karichal pump-house, 22km from here, the KWA is trying to make a
change.