With every passing day, drinking water scarcity is more acute in, the thickly populated residential colonies in Nua Bazaar, Bada Padia, Nehru Bungalow and Ghanagholia.
The situation is worse in the 26 slum settlements .
Major areas in the port town and its peripheral slum areas are reeling under severe drinking water crisis.
The Paradip Port Trust has 2,600 employees and the population in the port town area is over 85,000.
PPT is catering the drinking water to the whole populace, but also to the international ships.
There are three water reservoirs in Paradip port which are equipped to store three million gallons of water.
But the required drinking water demand in the township and slum pockets have now gone up to five million gallons a day.The water treatment plant of 6-MGD suffers due to lack of maintenance.
Digging of siltation and repairing work is going at Jobra of Cuttack so supply of water of Mahanadi has been severely stopped through Taladanda canal causing acute shortage of water in the said canal.
Executive Engineer, Mahanadi South Division, Cuttack Mr Baleswernath Sahoo said ‘as per the requirement of PPT, irrigation department has been supplied 250 cusec water through Taladadanda canal.
In view of the repair work the supply has been curtailed to once a day instead of twice.