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Mayor says no new water connections for the next few weeks

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The Hindu      13.03.2017   

Mayor says no new water connections for the next few weeks

To conserve available water for drinking, Mangaluru Mayor Kavita Sanil has barred new water connections for construction sites for the next few weeks.

Talking to The Hindu , Ms. Sanil said with no inflow from the Netravathi into the Thumbe vented dam and AMR Power Pvt. Ltd.’s dam at Shamboor, on the upstream of the Thumbe, the corporation needs to conserve water at the two dams to meet the drinking water requirement of the city, Bantwal and other areas.

Following a meeting with Commissioner Mohammed Nazir and other officials recently, it has been decided not to allow new water connections in construction sties, she added.

On Saturday, Ms. Sanil visited the Thumbe vented dam and the dam at Shamboor. Talking to reporters, she said that no decision has been taken on water rationing in the city.


Water level at the Thumbe dam was measured at 4.5 meters, while the level at the AMR dam stood at 6.15 m on Saturday. Inflow from the Netravathi into these two dams has stopped in the last 10 days, she told reporters.

Ms. Sanil said that with judicious use of water available drinking water requirement for the next two months could be met.

A list of borewells and open wells was being made from which water can be sourced for supplying water to parched areas in the city, she said.

 

Open water helpline, local bodies told

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The Hindu      14.02.2017  

Open water helpline, local bodies told

Deputy Commissioner K.G. Jagadeesha on Monday directed urban local bodies and taluk administrations to open round-the-clock helpline service in their jurisdiction to attend to drinking water problems immediately.

Presiding over a meeting on addressing drinking water requirements during the summer here, Mr. Jagadeesha said that complaints about drinking water should be solved within 24 hours.

If, for any reason, people resort to protests for non-availability of drinking water, the officer concerned in the gram panchayat or the urban local body would be held responsible, he said.

Meanwhile, Mr. Jagadeesha also directed officials concerned to completely stop fodder transportation either from Dakshina Kannada or through Dakshina Kannada to neighbouring Kerala in view of the severe drought. He asked officials to take up as many works as possible under employment guarantee scheme in Bantwal and Mangaluru taluks which have been declared drought-hit.

Zilla Panchayat Deputy Secretary N.R. Umesh said that though the government has lifted the blanket ban on sinking of borewells by individuals in Mangaluru, Bantwal, Belthangady and Sullia taluks, obtaining no objection certificate from the local body concerned is mandatory. Also, such borewells should not be within 500 m of any public drinking water source, he said.

 

State seeks water from Aliyar dam for Palakkad

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The Hindu      18.03.2016  

State seeks water from Aliyar dam for Palakkad

TN urged to release 100 cusecs daily till the onset of monsoon 

People moving around in search for water at Ottappalamin Palakkad on Thursday. –Photo: K. K. Mustafah
People moving around in search for water at Ottappalamin Palakkad on Thursday. –Photo: K. K. Mustafah

Faced with extreme drinking water scarcity in most parts of Palakkad district, Kerala has urged Tamil Nadu to release at least 100 cusecs of water daily from the Parambikulam-Aliyar Project (PAP) to meet the drinking water needs of people depending on the now dried-up Bharathapuzha and its feeders till the onset of the southwest monsoon.

As per the inter-State water-sharing agreement signed by the two States, Tamil Nadu need not release water from the PAP to Kerala from April 1 to May 15 every year. However, Kerala has requested water keeping in view of the extreme summer heat that dried up most of its drinking water sources in Palakkad. Once Tamil Nadu releases water from the Aliyar dam under the PAP, the water will reach the Bharathapuzha through its feeder Chittur river. People living even in far away Ottappalam and Shoranur will get their share of drinking water if the neighbouring State releases 100 cusecs of water daily.

According to highly placed sources, Tamil Nadu has agreed to release the required quantity daily if Kerala provides daily an additional of 40 cusecs water from the Siruvani dam to meet the drinking water needs of Coimbatore city. Officials of the Joint Water Regulatory Board will meet soon to discuss the proposal.

Meanwhile, the district administration has identified 158 locations in Palakkad as drought-prone. Thirteen areas have also been identified as extremely affected with lack of drinking water.


TN seeks additional 40 cusecs daily from Siruvani

Joint Water Regulatory Board to discuss the issue

 


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