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Chennai water crisis: With reservoirs drying out, where will the city get its water from?

Chennai water crisis: With reservoirs drying out, where will the city get its water from?.
Things are going to get difficult for residents in Chennai as the four reservoirs from where the water-starved city sources its water are likely to go dry in a few days.
Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) will also cut its supply from 500 million litres per day to 420-470 million litres per day in the next few weeks.
The Red Hills reservoir, located in the Thiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu, is also likely to dry out by the end of the week with storage at 33 McFt against the full capacity of 3300 McFt.
A senior official at Metrowater told the News Minute that the water situation in Chennai is "bad" and added that the city would face a crisis if the south-west monsoon fails.
From where will Chennai get its water?
The water supply will depend on how much of groundwater is available at the Metrowater sources in Tiruvallur and Neyveli.
Our 100 MLD desalination plants at Nemmeli and Minjur are running at full capacity," a senior Metrowater official told TOI.
After the Red Hills reservoir dries out by the end of this week, water is expected to be sourced from the Neyveli basin, Tiruvallur farms and rainwater stored in Sikkarayapuram quarries, which account for around 270 million litres of water per day.
Metrowater officials also considered pumping water through a pipeline from these sites to the Chembarambakkam treatment plant to be distributed to residences in Chennai Central.

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