After serving notice on the owners of commercial establishments in
the city on Monday, the Salem City Municipal Corporation has started
disconnecting water pipelines to them here on Tuesday.

About 113
million litres of water is received from Mettur Dam everyday through two
water supply schemes, which is in turn distributed to households and
commercial establishments in all the 60 wards. With the water level in
the dam dropping to 26 feet, officials decided to give priority to
address the drinking water needs of the people for the next three
months. Hence, the Corporation announced that 1,387 connections given to
commercial establishments would be disconnected from Monday. All the
owners of these establishments were served notices and were asked to
arrange their own source of water.

On Tuesday, officials began
disconnecting water pipelines to commercial establishments in all the
four zones. They added that the work will take more than two weeks for
completion after which drinking water will be supplied only to
households.

A total of 30
connections, Suramangalam Zone – 3, Hasthampatti – 7, Ammapet – 6 and
Kondalampatti – 14, were disconnected on Tuesday.