Meanwhile, a Rs 60 crore water supply project is non-operational.
With around 1,000 residents, the villagers are paying the price of for the negligence of the administration.
At a time of heat waves, water scarcity has hit residents.
Even if water supply projects are non-operational for years the administration does not care to repair them.
Due to public pressure a tube well was dug and a water supply project worth Rs 60 crore under the Rural Drinking Water Supply Scheme was launched in 2015-2016 fiscal.
This outraged the villagers.
Earlier, the BDO had directed a probe and had promised to provide water as soon as possible after repairing the tube well.
The villagers are a worried lot as the increasing temperatures have worsened their problems.
They demanded that the water supply project to be repaired fast.
PNN

It was predicted that residents of Cape Town will have to face acute scarcity of drinking water towards the middle of April.
Cape Town’s is not an isolated case.
At present about a billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water and 2.7 billion more face water scarcity for at least a month in a year.
Added to the problem of wastage of drinking water, the city is also in the news for pollution of its water bodies.
The Bellandur Lake is a case in point.
Many parts of the country are facing problems associated with availability of drinking water.
In the case of India, Day Zero would mean something entirely different from what it means for Cape Town.
What the South African city means by Day Zero is that its residents, who are even now receiving 24×7 domestic water supply, will only have to line up for drinking water.
But in India domestic water supply round the clock is a luxury that isolated parts in some cities enjoy.
And of the cities covered by the survey, only two (Chandigarh and Thiruvananthapuram) received water for more than 12 hours in a day.

CHENNAI: With several places in Tamil Nadu staring at short supply of potable water, the government departments are implementing contingency plans to tackle drinking water scarcity.
Drinking water shortage was one of the main topics discussed at the recent Collectors’ Conference chaired by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami.
Later, the Chief Secretary also held a meeting with top authorities to take stock of the situation, official sources said.
“We have drawn up contingency plans to tackle water shortage.
Monitoring and micromanagement of water distribution is being done,” K Satyagopal, Commissioner for Revenue Administration and Relief Commissioner, told Express.
Revamp of old combined water supply schemes will be given priority in the programme to augment water distribution.
According to Satyagopal, focus will be on those panchayats and blocks that could face water shortage.
Districts having combined water supply schemes do not face much problems as water could be channelised to the places covered under the schemes.
We can utilise it for drinking water purposes.
Quenching thirst ● Coimbatore, Erode, Madurai, Perambalur, Ramanathapuram, Sivaganga and Pudukkottai may face water shortage ● Contingency plans drawn up to tackle shortage ● Micro-management of supply a key element in the plan ● Focus on panchayats and blocks anticipating scarcity ● Combined water supply schemes help ensure balanced distribution ● Storage in major reservoirs better than last year

In 15 years, the demand for water will surpass its supply by 40 per cent.
Need to conserve Water conservation reduces energy use and can even save households money.
The less water used or wasted by people, the less clean water will become contaminated.
It is imperative that people take steps to conserve water, or else the world will face an increasingly severe water deficit.” Plugging the leaks A tap that drips once every second waste about 1000 litres of water every month.
Aabid Surti, cartoonist, resident of Mira Road took up the task of fixing the taps in the area after he found out that one or the other tap dripping is a common sight in every house.
Surti said, “Fixing a tap could help save tens of thousands of litres of clean water in a year and save individual household a lot of money in the process.
Till date he has fixed leaking taps in more than 10,000 homes in the last seven years and saved several millions of litres of water.
Simple and effective Rainwater harvesting systems are simple to build and operate.
Aniket Godbole, who has been promoting rainwater harvesting in housing societies in Mumbai and has implemented it in nearly 17 of them successfully, says, “A terrace of 1,000 sq ft can save up to 2.24 lakh litres of rainwater during monsoon.
Wells must be cleaned every five years so that water can be used for drinking.” There are more than 1000 wells in the city but only few of them are being used by residents.

Chandigarh Kaushalya Dam may go dry within month; HUDA to launch drive against wastage Rajinder Nagarkoti Panchkula, April 14 While there is unending wait for additional water supply from the Kajauli waterworks to Panchkula, the city is staring at water crisis as the supply from The Kaushalya Dam will be stopped in coming days.
Top officials of the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) and the Irrigation Department are too tight-lipped over the development.
Meanwhile, city residents have started facing low water pressure.
Monika Sethi, a resident of Sector 16, said, “The authorities have no long-term plan.
They only wake up in summer.
Otherwise, they don’t bother about water scarcity in the city.” Varun Gupta, a resident of Sector 7, said HUDA should take up the matter of the supply from the Kajauli waterworks with the Chandigarh Administration.
Imagine their plight in the month of June,” he said.
Increasing demand behind scarcity An increase in the demand for water and the failure to improve the supply are causing the scarcity.
As per experts, the demand for water had increased to 5-6 MGD, but the supply has not been increased proportionately.
The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) had spent Rs 23 crore on laying a pipeline from the dam to Panchkula.

Bhopal: Inmates of Sanjay Gandhi Hostel of Barkatullah University staged a sit-in in front of the university admin block, Satya Bhawan to protest water scarcity in the boarding facility on Friday.
The hostels as well as BU campus have been struggling with inadequate supply of water for quite some time and with the approaching summer, the problem has aggravated.
The boarders though had complained about the matter to registrar UN Shukla during his surprise inspection to the hostel fifteen days ago, nothing positive has come out so far.
The students continued their protest for more than two hours and it was ended only after the registrar and VC in charge DC gupta assured them of immediate action on the issue.
Speaking to Free Press, BU student union president Swapnil Patel informed that “We have complained about the problem to the university officials multiple times but as no action has been taken yet to address our woes; we are left with no option but to stage demonstration.” However, the registrar assured us of sorting out the problem within a week, added Patel.
Meanwhile, commenting on the issue, Shukla said “We have received the memorandum from the hostellers and will sort out the problem within a week.”

JHARSUGUDA:Water scarcity in Jharsuguda district is not new and more importantly, in Brajrajnagagr area, where because of coal mining, water level depletes due to cervices in coal mines.
The crisis deepens with advancement of summer as people struggle for every drop of water.
Ironically, the villages also include Rajpur, which is home to former Brajrajnagagr MLA and chairman of Odisha Lift Irrigation Corporation Anup Sai.
Rajpur had a drinking water project which drew water from Basundhara river and supplied it to Rajpur, Rugdidhipa and Deogaon villages.
The drinking water project, which was commissioned in 2014, provided water to 336 families in these villages till it broke down more than a week back leaving the villagers, CHC, schools and Anganwadi Centre in the lurch.
While the people have been forced to fall back on the polluted Basundhara river, in a bid to cleanse the water, they have dug up pit on the sandy bed of the river and are collecting water from the pit for drinking and cooking purposes.
With water level depleting, water does not ooze out from tube-wells thus worsening their woes.
A meeting was held on Sunday which was attended by Rajpur Sarpanch Jatin Deo and Village Water and Sanitation Committee president Jatindra Meher.
They castigated the WESCO for their inhumane approach and it was resolved to collect money from among the villagers and clear the outstanding dues.
It was also decided that the drinking water project will be handed over to the Gram Panchayat, which will ensure its smooth operation.

Gujarat is reeling under acute water scarcity and the situation may worsen in the coming summer months as Sardar Sarovar Dam, a major source, has low water levels.
We will release the details of the programme later and make announcements so that people of the state can also do their bit for conservation of water.” Rupani also said that his government has decided to increase the water-storage capacity in the state by next monsoon so that such as situation of water crisis could be avoided next year.
The chief minister said the government would push for the construction of more check dams, ponds and reservoirs in the state.
The CM said that this would increase the water-storage capacity in the state manifold through the join efforts of the government, citizens and other organisations.
We will carry out other programmes including construction of check dams, desilting of reservoirs and rainwater harvesting in houses during the period.” The government is also encouraging people to donate money so that a corpus along the lines of Kanya Kelavni Nidhi (corpus to educate girl child in state) could be built.
He said people in rural areas were welcomed to help with the construction work.
“We have decided to increase the storage capacity of reservoirs in the state and desilting of the dam reservoirs will be a priority so that more water can be stored.
Moreover, we will deploy earth-moving equipment at dam sites so that farmers can come there with transport vehicles and collect silt which is very fertile for farmlands,” Patel added.
CM Rupani said that his government has decided to increase the water-storage capacity.
The government would push for the construction of more check dams, ponds and reservoirs in the state.

Sambalpur: Most of the rural areas in this district still depend on tube wells to meet their drinking water needs as piped water system is yet to reach the nooks and corners.
Demand for water increases with the mercury soaring during the summer days.
The department, he said, was working on two mega projects and two medium projects for piped water supply to rural areas, besides ensuring that at least one tube well point was provided in each of the 138 gram panchayats (GPs) across nine blocks.
Extra tube wells are being provided where ground water sources are easily located, the engineer said, adding extra provision is made for two categories, namely scarcity habitation and partially covered (PC) areas.
These need immediate attention.
PC habitation means the uncovered habitation in a locality even after one tube well point is provided.
Tube well sinking works in 26 scarcity habitations in six blocks were completed so far, out of 33 such identified points.
Explaining on the mega projects, the engineer said one of the two mega piped water supply projects has a total outlay of Rs 85 crore to cater to the needs of 117 villages in a cluster in 9 GPs in Redhakhol block.
The total outlay for the project is Rs 155 crore and water for the same will be drawn from Hirakud reservoir near Sapne in Rengali block.
Rautrai stressed that providing drinking water to the entire 9 lakh rural population in the district is not a cakewalk.

Chennai: Residents in large numbers turned up in Hasthinapuram, for the street corner meeting organised by the Federation of Pallavaram Residents’ Welfare Association last week in the city suburb.
This was in continuation with its first meet held at Radha Nagar on 24 March.
The group is also planning to conduct series of meetings at Pallavaram and Nemilcherry, it is learnt.
While the said meet intended at enlightening residents about various pressing issues like water scarcity, property tax and UGD connections, it also aimed to draw the attention of concerned authorities.
It may be noted that after a huge protest was raised over the hike in property tax under the jurisdiction of Pallavaram Municipality, and authorities concerned had informed the residents that tax collection has been stalled till receiving further order – the issue has not yet been resolved.
“The residents are directed to pay taxes for 13 arrears.
While over 300 persons gathered at the venue, the issue that is continuing for over two months had gained momentum in the last couple of days, with the close of the financial year.
“We are paying tax for a resource which we scarcely receive in the locality.
While levying property tax, a detailed information of cess collected under different heads is divulged.
Then, how will the delay in UGD connection affect the whole system?”