GHAZIABAD, June 16 -- In a city already reeling under long power
cuts, the demand for water
supply has exceeded by 100 million litres per day (MLD). The
city's water table has also gone down by 20 feet in the past one decade.
Municipal officials said against a demand of
nearly 504MLD of water, only 396MLD is being supplied to the city.
Areas such as Shalimar Garden, Rajendra Nagar are the worst sufferers - they
are getting only an hour of water supply every alternate day. Lajpat Nagar and DLF
Colony get one hour of water supply each day.
"Residents are forced to use
submersibles, pumps and other measures," said Mithlesh Sharma, a Lajpat Nagar resident.
Areas such as Indirpuram, Kaushambi,
Vaishali, Vasundhara and Delta-colonies are dependent on supply from the Pratap Vihar plant
which can supply only 73MLD of water.
"Bore-well water is used in homes
and we have to install RO systems to filter it from impurities," said SK
Maheshwari from Delta colonies.
Corporation officials said water is
supplied from around 360 tube-wells. They said frequent power cuts have
aggravated the situation.
"Yearly, there is a 5% increase in water demand," said Babu Lal,
general manager, water works.
Officials said they were in process of
enhancing supply with the help of R44- crore project. Another project at Pratap
Vihar is expected to supply around 100 qusecs of water, a majority of which
will go to Noida.
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