Coimbatore: Over 60 families residing in and around Karuparayan Kovil Street extension at Puliyakulam have been struggling after the city corporation stopped supplying drinking water to the area one-and-a-half months ago.
“Most of us used to collect water from the tap whenever it was supplied, that is, once in eight days.
We filed a complaint to the city corporation officials after receiving water contaminated with sewage in December.
It was the last time we received drinking water,” she told TOI.
R Sivagamani, another resident, said the corporation’s water tanker supplied drinking water only three times.
Some people managed to get a few buckets of drinking water from our neighbourhood areas.
But as it is supplied only for a couple of hours, there is a huge rush to collect it.” A corporation official in charge of providing water to the locality said that works are progressing to stop pipeline leak and check sewage contamination.
“We had to dig up at eight places to find the leaking pipe.
It has been fixed.
Most likely, the residents will receive non-contaminated water from Monday,” he told TOI.