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MADURAI: Even when many areas in the city struggle to get quality drinking water regularly, residents of Iravathanallur ward in Madurai Municipal Corporation (MMC) gets purified drinking water without fail. Even before its incorporation to the city corporation as ward 55, the people here had the foresight to invest in a reverse osmosis (RO) plant. Even when other wards in Madurai city struggle to get water, every family in Iravathanallur gets two pots of purified water for a meagre Re 1.50 round the month. Though, MMC refuses to provide any maintenance funds, the residents operate the plant with support from ward councillor, residents said. Two RO plants were established in Iravathanallur and Vadivelkarai panchayats in 2009 with joint funding from Madurai district administration and the local panchayats. Both the plants are maintained well mainly because of public support. When Iravathanallur became part of Madurai city, locals had feared that the plant may be discarded. "We insi

AHMEDABAD: A consumer court recently asked Whirlpool India to pay an amount of Rs 2000 to a consumer from Ahmedabad, Kalpesh Parikh, who filed a complaint against a defective RO water purifier. As per the case details from the Consumer Education & Research Society (CERS), Parikh was facing major functionality problems with his recently purchased RO water purifier from Whirlpool India. However, his repeated attempts to get it repaired from Whirlpool went in vain as the company refused to pay heed to his complaints. As a result of the constant neglect of the company, Parikh approached CERS to intervene and resolve the matter. After verifying the case details, CERS lodged a complaint against Whirlpool India in the consumer forum. As per the settlement, Whirlpool India has agreed to pay a token amount of Rs 2,000 along with replacement of the damaged parts of the machine and extending the warranty cover for the damaged RO sold to Parikh. Additionally, it was also decided that Whirlpoo