No water cut till July 26 in Pune, says municipal corporation
India Today
The Pune Municipal Corporation has decided to continue its normal water supply till July 26 due to heavy rainfall filing the water level in the dams.
The Pune Municipal Corporation has decided to continue its normal water supply till July 26 due to heavy rainfall filing the water level in the dams.
The civic body had to go for a 30 per cent water cut by declaring an alternate day water supply after the state water resource department raised an alert about decreasing water storage in the dams supplying water to the city due to a deficit in rainfall.
Earlier, the PMC had said it will start an alternate day water supply from July 4 to July 11 due to the deficit rain in June, which brought down the water storage to 2.5 TMC in the dams. However, the civic body restored normal supply from July 8 citing Ashadi Ekadashi and Bakri Eid celebrations on Sunday.
“The situation has been reviewed and considering the available quantity of water in the dams, the water supply will be normal till July 26,” said Annirudha Pawaskar, Chief Engineer and in-charge of the PMC’s water supply department. Any further decision about water management would be taken on July 26 after reviewing the situation, said officials.
The water storage had decreased to 2.5 TMC in the past week.
