People in areas such as Brajrajnagar, Belpahar and Jharsuguda township are struggling for every drop of water with the municipalities unable to meet the requirement.
Against the requirement of 15.1 million litres per day (MLD) of drinking water, only 3.11 MLD is being supplied.
There is partial supply of water in Wards 4,5,6,13,15,16,20 and 22.
No water is supplied in the remaining 10 wards.
A filtration plant of 11 MLD and a reservoir of 48.5-litre capacity would be set up for the purpose and 17.57-km pipeline will be laid.
Of the existing 19 wards in the town, the PHED is able to supply water through pipelines to only seven wards and the rest 12 wards do not get any water.
Jharsuguda Municipality Chairman Harish Ganatra said they are trying to supply water through more tankers in the town and nearby areas.
The District Collector has recently convened a meeting to chalk out a contingency plan for water scarcity in five blocks of Lakhanpur, Laikera, Kulabira, Kirmira and Jharsuguda blocks where the waterbodies are getting dried up with rising pollution level.
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Water has become scarce with open wells and ponds going dry.

Ms de Lille was speaking at a Council meeting, announcing heightened level four water restrictions in Cape Town as it grapples with the worst drought it has seen in a century.
“Water is not to be taken for granted.
To run out of useable water is to be presented with a crisis of catastrophic proportions.
What has worked very well in the past may not be the best model going forward,” she continued.
Ms de Lille said the city traditionally relied on winter rains to replenish its water levels, but with poor rainfall thus far during May, the confidence in weather prediction is low.
“We need a new relationship with water.
It does not mean that our lives should be diminished or the economy negatively affected.” Tighter restrictions de Lille said the new water restrictions that will mitigate the short term possibility of acute water shortages and ensure that Cape Town builds a water resilient city in the medium- to long-term.
Think 100 litres,” she said.
“We are in a critical situation and to build resilience to acute water shortages we need to push even harder and reduce water usage city-wide to 500 million litres of water per day…as Council will not meet until the end of July, I am also requesting Council to support further restrictions, 4B, that can be implemented in the next 60 days,” de Lille added.
Such restrictions would be more closely aligned with a 500 million litre per day goal, and would be consequently more restrictive.

As city reels under water scarcity, 5-7 lakh litres used to tackle Chennai Silks blaze.
According to Revenue Minister Udayakumar, 85 water tankers had to be deployed to fight the flames that have still not been fully extinguished more than 31 hours after the fire began.
While 75 water tankers had been deployed till 10pm on Wednesday night, around 10 more tankers had been called in till Thursday morning.
According to officials, most Metrowater tankers possess a capacity between 6,000 to 9,000 litres.
Experts and fire officials say that the massive blaze was able to get so far out of control as the building had violated many fire safety norms, and this had made it much harder for fire and rescue personnel to access and control the fire in time.
One of the main problems was the building’s lack of ventilation, which filled the interiors with thick, heavy black smoke that prevented firefighters from entering the building and tackling the flame up close.
On Wednesday afternoon, they finally had to use a crane to break down parts of the façade of the building so that it could be ventilated and the fire could be controlled.
Another major problem was the lack of space in which to manoeuvre firefighting vehicles and equipment, as the building had ignored norms on the setback space required for this purpose.
For much of Wednesday morning and afternoon, firefighters thus had to resort to spraying the building from atop the T Nagar flyover which runs right next to the building.
Although the flames seemed to be coming under control on Wednesday night, a major setback came when the interior structure, massively weakened by the flames, started collapsing at around 3am.

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Cape Town – In a speech before the full council on Wednesday, Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille described the scenario of the city running out of water as a “crisis of catastrophic proportions,” warning that water scarcity was now the “New Normal”. One week ago, Mayor Zille declared the Western Cape province a disaster area because of the relentless drought, asking residents to manage their water supplies more efficiently as the South African region tries to cope with dwindling water supplies. But the urgency and foreboding in her message on Wednesday point to the seriousness of the water problem in the region. Cape Town now has less than 10 percent usable water left for its approximately 4.0 million residents. The city has now implemented Level Four water restrictions. In her speech to the full council today, Executive Mayor Zille pointed out that the city has had water restrictions ion place since 2005, and in 2015, they were made even tighter. Reliance on the rainy season a way of life With the city relying on winter rains every year to replenish the reservoir system that supplies the city’s water, it is more like putting all of your eggs in one basket, though. And the mayor said that although everyone has been really conscientious about using water more efficiently, it appears this is not enough. Zille said: “Two days ago we…

How to Produce More Food with Less Damage to Soil, Water, Forests.
To achieve sustainable development we must transform current agriculture and food systems, including by supporting smallholders and family farmers, reducing pesticide and chemical use, and improving land conservation practices, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) director-general on May 30 said in Brussels addressing European lawmakers.
José Graziano da Silva stressed that while high-input and resource intensive farming systems have substantially increased food production, this has come at a high cost to the environment.
“Today, it is fundamental not only to increase production, but to do it in a way that does not damage the environment.
Among the 15 trends described in the report, are the impacts of climate change, conflicts and migration.
The report also foresees 10 challenges for achieving food security, improving nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture worldwide.
Climate Change He underscored that no sector is more sensitive to climate change than agriculture – especially for smallholders and family farmers from developing countries – while at the same time, agriculture and food systems account for around 30 per cent of total greenhouse emissions.
There is no trade-off between the two,” the FAO chief said, while pointing to the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while at the same time building the resilience and to promote the adaptation of farmers to the impacts of climate change.
To this end, FAO supports countries through different initiatives and approaches, including climate-smart agriculture, agro-ecology and agro-forestry.
“Today the world produces enough to feed the global population, but about one third of this food is either lost or wasted, while at the same time there is also a waste of natural resources such as land and water.” The UN agency currently supports about 50 countries in the area of food losses and waste, including through the SAVE FOOD initiative, a unique partnership –with more than 850 members from industry, associations, research institutes and non-governmental organizations– that addresses these issues “across the entire value chain from field to fork,” Graziano da Silva told the European parliamentarians.

Apartment residents’ ire against water supplier: Neighbouring borewells go dry.
Mysuru: The residents of the Sriram Purnashree Apartment Association in Hinkal, have complained to the Mysuru Deputy Commissioner that a private water supplier is drawing water non-stop from a borewell in Hinkal and selling it in the tankers, lorries and tractors, thus causing the nearby borewells to go dry.
In a letter addressed to the Deputy Commissioner, John Thayyil, President of the Association, has alleged that due to indiscriminate pumping of water from a particular borwell, the other borwells nearby are drying up, resulting in water scarcity.
The Geology Department has also given a report stating that continuous drawing of ground water will affect the underground water level.
In a letter dated March 20, 2017, the Tahasildar of Mysuru taluk had directed the owner of the tanker, Sathish, to stop drawing water continuously, on the oral order of the Deputy Commissioner, except between 11 am and 4 pm.
However, he has completely ignored the direction, and continues to draw water and supply it in tankers, said Thayyil.
The residents of the apartment have also petitioned the KUWSDB Managing Director Manivannan against the water supplier Sathish for violation of rules, according to John Thayyil [Mob: 94480-44297].

Florida leads the south in water efficiency, according to a study examining water use across the United States.
These findings are consistent with the national findings that show increased water efficiency in urban areas while rural areas have become less efficient.
“Florida is the third most populous state in the country and it is largely urban, which accounts for its higher water efficiency compared to other southern states,” said FIU biologist John Kominoski, a co-author of the study.
Adopting water-efficiency technologies and retrofitting existing water infrastructures are big reasons why urban areas have improved, according to the researchers.
Water use efficiency in urban Miami-Dade County has stayed about the same or slightly decreased since 1985.
“It’s difficult to say why Miami-Dade’s water use efficiency decreased,” Kominoski said.
Understanding how people use water is important because climate change is likely to impact its availability, especially as populations also increase, according to the researchers.
The researchers found counties with higher income and education, particularly those throughout the northwest, central, south and southeast U.S., are becoming more water efficient.
Counties with lower income and education, particularly in the northeast, became less water efficient.
“Water is a limited resource that doesn’t renew itself year-to-year.

RAWALPINDI: To resolve the water crisis brewing in the garrison city, plans are afoot to draw water from the Ghazi-Barotha water project. This was revealed by the newly appointed Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) chairman Ziaullah Shah. A former Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA from Rawalpindi, Shah said that the water shortage had become a big issue in the city and he would play his role in arranging more water for the residents…

Negligence of traditional methods led to water scarcity, says expert.
“We must start a dialogue with the Government for identifying, demarcating and notifying the water bodies.
In every state, the cause of ill-maintained waterbodies is different.
In Tamil Nadu it is encroachment.
It can be tackled if the government starts documenting the waterbodies.
The traditional crop patterns are failing due to the state of the waterbodies.
“To conserve the natural resource—water better, we must roll back to the ancient system of storing which is seven centuries old,” pointed out the recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award and Stockholm Water Prize.
The introduction of water extraction techniques by the bureaucracy, change in the paradigm of development, state’s ownership of what is meant for the community to work on, disintegration of community institutions, creation of dependency syndrome which makes the government interfere into the issue and negligence of traditional methods for conserving the water are the foremost reasons for the drought.
In addition, the speaker emphasised on maintaining a balance between recharging the groundwater while we discharge.
“To make Tamil Nadu drought-free”, he said, “We must start interacting with people who deal with the resource, be it for exploiting, polluting or whatsoever the reason, and try to understand it better.