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.