Kota locals get water supply for 3-4 hours
KOTA: For residents of the Chambal-fed district round-theclock water supply has become a thing of the past. Several areas of the city is now solely dependent on three to four hours water supplied by the public health engineering department.
Areas including Kansua, Prem Nagar I, II and III, Prem Nagar Affordable Housing Scheme, Govind Nagar among others are the worst hit of the lot.
Talking to Hindustan Times, Govind Nagar resident Dhananjay Tiwari, 30, said water supply was regular till a decade ago. “But now water supply is confined to just three to four hours in the morning. The water pressure is so low that we have to use pumping motors to get water in multistoried buildings.”
Echoing the concerns, Ravindra Singh Hada of Kansua area, said that poor water supply and pressure had also reflected on their electricity bills.
“It is a daily drudgery for residents of Prem Nagar colony to walk one km to fetch drinking water from the public tap located near Tejaji temple. The borings provide water only fit for bathing and washing,” Gulab Bai, a resident of Prem Nagar, said.
Fed up with the water crisis, residents of Gokuldham Society in the area, on Sunday, organised a sit-in. Spokesperson of the 2,000 houses-strong society, Pankaj Kumar Jain, said: “The public health and engineering department (PHED) supply line pass through the society, but due to lack of connections from such lines, the residents of the colony are struggling for water.”
The situation is also difficult for the two dozen residential colonies located in tail end of the water supply network near DCM factory and the several agricultural colonies in Borkhera region of Kota City and new Kota.
When approached, superintendent engineer of PHED, Kota Ashok Jain, said: “Water JODHPUR: The drinking water problem has worsened in several areas of Jodhpur city due to shortage of water in main reservoirs of Kaylana and Thakat Sagar.
The reservoirs, which receive water from the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana (IGNP) canal, are not getting the water following closure of the canal since April 21.
Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED) had claimed that the water needs of Jodhpur city would be met with stored water in the reservoirs, but complaints of water shortage from the residents are being received constantly. Chopasani Housing Board, Soorsagar and Pratap Nagar
supply in Kota is far better than other cities. Still several areas receive 24 hour water supply, particularly the Fortwall area.”
He, however, admitted that the tail end of the water supply network did face some water shortage.
“Work on the joint water filter areas are the worst-hit.
BJP legislator from Soorsagar Suryakanta Vyas has lodged a complaint of insufficient water supply with the PHED additional chief engineer. Water supply to Shikshaknagar, Amarnagar, Rawatnagar has also been irregular for the past 10 days. People in the scarcity-hit areas are forced to purchase water from the tankers to meet their daily needs.
PHED additional chief engineer Premsukh Sharma said IGNP water had been stored in seven optional ponds for the water supply in urban
and rural areas of Jodhpur. HTC
project worth 75 million liters per day (MLD) of the UIT, Kota Municipal Corporation, Krishi Upaj Mandi and other agencies, is underway. It is expected to be completed within a year following which water crisis in such (tail end) colonies will be resolved to a significant extent,” he said.