With every passing day, drinking water scarcity is getting more acute in all 21 wards of the municipality having a population of 60,000.
Residents alleged that the water that comes through municipal’s taps in the town gets mixed with sewage water and it cannot be used for cooking or bathing.
Locals have been facing the problem of contaminated drinking water for many years due to wrong laying of sewerage system.
“Kendrapara town needs eight million litres of drinking water daily.
But we are providing 7.17 million litres of water while 3,827 families have water connection.
But around 3,000 have been collecting water by illegally tapping the pipelines.
Around `90 lakh water tax is pending against the residents since long,” said Raman Kumar Dash, Assistant Engineer of Public Health and Engineering Department.
“Out of 7.17 million liters, we are supplying 5.
The Government has recently granted `1.
After digging five deep borewells, the water problem will be solved,” he added.