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NEW DELHI: The water department has been under the chief minister's direct control for the past 15 years. As chairperson of Delhi Jal Board, Sheila Dikshit has been responsible for not only the water supply in the city but also the Yamuna, failure to clean which has become a major embarrassment for the government. At present, Delhi produces around 835 million gallons per day (MGD) of water—at least 300MGD short of the actual demand. The CM's biggest challenge in her current term, and maybe the state's biggest failure, has been to get Haryana to release 80MGD from the Munak canal. While the Congress government in Haryana remains adamant, three completed treatment plants in Delhi await water while many thousands of Delhiites get no water or barely once a day. The government's most controversial step has been to introduce public-private partnership in water distribution. Delhi's supply is marked by leaking pipelines and massive wastage, and the government was keen to

MYSORE: Farmers in the region, especially those involved in rain-fed cultivation and who lost crops last year due to drought, are in upbeat this time with pre-monsoon rain raising their hopes. The region, particularly Mysore district, has received good pre-monsoon rain, prompting farmers to take up the sowing of kharif crops. Mysore usually gets pre-monsoon rain in good quantity during April-end and early May. But the delay in getting this rain has left the farmers with bad memories of last year's drought. However, the good spell of rain in the last 3-4 days, particularly on Friday night, has got them set for the sowing season, which has already begun in some parts of the district. According to the agriculture department, all seven taluks of Mysore district and four taluks of Chamarajanagar received good rain on Thursday and Friday. Krishnaiah, joint director of agriculture, said: "Barring T Narasipura, rest of the taluks of the district received good rain on Friday. This is

MUMBAI: The civic body has announced a 100% water cut in some parts of the city on Wednesday. The 21-hour water cut will start at 7am on June 5 and continue into the early hours of Thursday, as the BMC plans to repair two 1,200mm valves and work on giving a cross-connection under a water supply tunnel project planned at Mahalaxmi Racecourse. This isolation of water main will affect Parel, Dadar, Mahim, Matunga (excluding Dharavi), Kasturaba Hospital, Nair Hospital, DurgaDevi Tank, M P Mill Compound, BDD Chawl (Parel), Worli BDD Chawl, Sir Pochkhanwala Road, Worli Koliwada, Worli dairy, and in D Ward in Tardeo, Tulsi Wadi and Nana Chowk. The BMC has already issued an advisory for citizens to save water, the day before. Source - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Brace-for-21-hour-water-cut-on-Wednesday/articleshow/20389267.cms?

NEW DELHI: Despite Uttar Pradesh releasing water for Delhi after the Ganga canal closure, some parts of south Delhi continue to face water shortage. A two-hour long power cut at the Cantt booster pumping station on Thursday disrupted the water supply again for the next two days in the Vasant Vihar command area and part of the Ring Road. Delhi Jal Board is facing a massive increase in demand with Delhi being ravaged by a heat wave since last week. "DJB has touched a record-high production and is treating 834-835 million gallons water per day. Since demand is so high, we have been trying to rationalize water so that everyone gets some supply at least," said a senior official. The supply would resume normally after a day or so, said an official. 0 However, the residents in Saket and nearby Vasant Vihar are complaining that water is yet to reach their homes. At Saket's D block, water supply was disrupted around May 17 - the day the Ganga canal was shut. "Before that, w

LUCKNOW: While soaring temperature is constantly testing patience of people, the element to beat heat - water -- is also not being provided in sufficient quantity. Residents who are already grappling with poor electricity supply in scorching summer are finding hard to survive amid water shortage. The worst hit areas are trans-Gomti localities like Vikasnagar, Nishatganj and Paper Mill Colony. In Paper Mill Colony, residents complain supply is intermittent and even when it is comes, it is just for about half an hour. Manju Chauhan, a resident of Paper Mill Colony, rued: "The water supply has been missing for days and our household chores have been suffering due to water scarcity." In Aliganj, people complain about presence of dust, sand and gravel particles in the government water supply. A resident, Dr RK Verma, said the problem has been chronic. Even Vikasnagar is not free from its share of woes, main being irregular supply hours and extremely thin flow. Ambika Prasad Sriv

BANGALORE: After house rent, it's now water rent. That's what desperate residents of Rajagopalnagar, Peenya second stage, pay their more fortunate neighbours to access drinking water. "Our borewell dried up five years ago and we don't get Cauvery water supply on this street. The house beside mine has a borewell which still yields good quantities of water. So we have a mutual agreement - we pay the owner Rs 150 per hour as rent to get drinking water from their well," said Choodamani Chikkegowda, homemaker and resident of 6th main Rajagopalnagar. This is nothing new here. A helpless Choodamani has been paying her neighbour for drinking water for about a year now. The house, which is not occupied by the owner, has been put to commercial use. The tenant, a hardware shop operator, refused to speak to TOI. The whole street depends on this borewell for drinking water. Another resident of the same area, Chandramma R pays Rs 2 per pot of drinking water from private tank

LUDHIANA: State government has embarked upon an ambitious plan of Rs400 crore on canal based water schemes to cater the need of 50 per cent of city in next two years as a pilot project. A decision to this effect was taken by Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal during a high level meeting on Tuesday. Badal has asked the secretary, local government department, to chalk out the modalities for the project. He also approved the proposed Rs 200 crore water supply project of the local government department to ensure 100% water supply for Ludhiana in next two years. He further asked the department to prepare a detailed plan to utilize storm water for irrigation purpose. Expressing the dire need to conserve water and obtaining zero water waste, Badal called upon the industrialists for the optimum utilization of the Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) treated water instead of wasting fresh water as the treated water was fully recommended for any other industrial use except drinking. The chief m

PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation's (PCMC) water supply department will submit a detailed report to municipal commissioner Shrikar Pardeshi on Tuesday on the issue of release of water from Pavana dam to Ujani dam in the drought-hit Solapur district. This was after the state government had asked the PCMC to provide its opinion on the release of water to Ujani dam. M T Kamble, officiating city engineer and chief of PCMC water supply department, said, "The civic body received an e-mail last Friday from the state government to give its opinion to Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority (MWRRA) on or before May 14 about the release of water from Pavana dam to Ujani dam." "A detailed report will be tabled before municipal commissioner Shrikar Pardeshi tomorrow (Tuesday). He will take a final decision on the opinion, which will be forwarded to the state government," he said. The e-mail sent by the state government said that the Bombay high co

CHANDIGARH: There are no exact records of water consumption in Sector 17 but an ongoing MC survey has found that many commercial buildings of the sector either have faulty meters or none at all. They get direct supply of potable water through main pipes. The situation in rented offices, shops and institutes is particularly bad. The survey found that even meter reading employees of the civic body authority have not been checking buildings properly. They have, in fact, been sending out readings on their own, leading to poor income generation against optimum supply. "This is shocking. I came to know that shops, offices and other commercial establishments in almost 50% of buildings in Sector 17 either have faulty meters or no meters and they are getting supply through main pipes. In many cases, current bills are being paid, but arrears worth lakhs have not been paid. I have already ordered disconnection of such connections and things are being done by the engineering wing of the MC&

KOZHIKODE: Technical issues have thwarted attempts to address the serious issue of drinking water scarcity even though special orders had been issued by the chief minister for speedy implementation of drought relief schemes. Chief minister Oommen Chandy had promised that limited tenders will be sanctioned for the emergency completion of drinking water projects in the district including repair of pumping motors, laying additional pipelines and cleaning water resources. Following this, all 15 MLAs in the district volunteered to submit a set of proposals requiring immediate attention of KWA and revenue officials. Though the direction was to complete all emergency works in three days' time, more than 95% of the proposals are still pending before the officials, owing to delay on the part of KWA. "Nothing has improved after the CM's meeting. Though promises were aplenty, the officials have started the usual blame games while the common man is still denied drinking water facili

NEW DELHI: In the absence of additional water from the Munak canal, Delhi Jal Board has put in place several measures to ensure that water distribution is not affected this summer when demand is expected to rise. The water utility will try and ensure an average production of 835 million gallons per day of water during the summer months. The water will be supplied to various areas through a network of 87 underground reservoirs. Officials said that about 200 km of old pipelines have been replaced while 333 major leak points were repaired in the last year. "Preventive maintenance works like flushing of water mains, cleaning of underground reservoirs and servicing of equipments at the pump houses has been carried out to ensure uninterrupted functioning of water installations during summer. Additional tube wells have been installed or re-bored where it was technically possible. We have also acquired 400 new water tankers with stainless steel containers. These tankers are fitted with

MYSORE: A day after assembly election results were announced, the residents in Janathanagar in west of Mysore in Chamaraja constituency took to streets, protesting against erratic water supply. They also threatened to lay siege to water supply main office if the authorities failed to supply water. Scores of residents from Janathanagar in Mysore City Corporation (MCC) ward 24 staged a protest on the streets, urging the authorities and elected representative to attend to their basic problem. They, however, relented an hour later following an assurance from an official of Vani Vilasa Water Works (VVWW), the water-supplying arm of MCC. Revanna, an activist of citizen's forum Jana Jagruthi Vedike, who led the protesters, said that residents in 5th, 6th and 7th cross roads of Janathanagar are deprived of water since three weeks, and that borewells in the locality are also dry. "We have been appealing to officials to supply water at least through tankers, but they were dragging

KOCHI: Lunch was not a very sumptuous affair for employees and the public in general who depend on city eateries on Tuesday. In fact, many had no choice at all as a majority of restaurants in the city downed their shutters due to water shortage. Around 60% of the 1,800 restaurants, including small and medium ones, remained closed till 3pm. According to the Kerala Hotel and Restaurant Association (KHRA), the eateries were left with no option after water supply was disrupted since Sunday midnight owing to the maintenance work being carried out by the Kerala Water Authority (KWA). The association said there was so much confusion over water supply since the repair work was earlier postponed and later not communicated clearly by KWA, resulting in restaurants failing to store enough water. "Restaurants had no option but to close down. The crisis became worse as water tankers were not allowed to enter the city during day time. If the authorities had given consent, the crisis could ha