Puri becomes India’s first city to provide quality drinking tap water

The project will help reduce plastic waste, says CM Patnaik

Puri on Monday became the first city in India where people can avail high quality drinking water directly from the tap on 24-hour basis. “Puri has become the first city in the country to implement a project of this kind. It has enabled the people of Puri to collect quality drinking water directly from the tap. Henceforth, people need not have to store or filter drinking water,” Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said while inaugurating the ‘Drink from Tap project’. “The inauguration of ‘Drink from Tap’ project marks a new chapter. No metropolitan city in India have such facility yet. Similar facilities are available only in world-class cities like London, New York and Singapore,” Mr. Patnaik said.