For more than 48 hours, the zoo has been partially facing a water supply crisis.
The pipeline which feeds the zoo store, canteen and supplies drinking water to the enclosures of the monkeys have also been hit.
“With the temperatures soaring, the shortage of water has aggravated the situation.
Animals require more water and the water evaporation rate is also high.
For two days, we can adjust with water from other locations in the zoo but this cannot be the norm,” says Zoo superintendent T V Anil Kumar.
This pipeline is also used to provide drinking water for the visitors.
On a daily basis, the zoo requires more than one lakh litres of drinking water.
All the food for the animals are prepared at the zoo store.
We are trying to tide over this with the alternative arrangements.
“Unless the water supply in the pipeline is restored at the earliest, the functioning will be hit,” he says.