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Parched Chennai will get drinking water, assures CM
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SME Times News Bureau | 19 Jun, 2019
With reservoirs supplying water to Chennai drying up and ground water
levels plummeting in absence of rain, water has become scarce but the
government is taking necessary steps to supply drinking water to people,
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami said on Tuesday.
Interacting with reporters here, Palaniswami said that owing to failure of rains, the ground water levels have gone down.
People
are using the water supplied through tankers for drinking and washing
as the ground water levels have gone down and hence the shortage, he
said.
The resorvoirs - Cholavaram (full capacity 1,081 mcft) and
Redhills (3,300 mcft)- which cater to the Chennai's water needs are dry
while the storage at Poondi reservoir is 24 mcft as against full
capacity of 3,231 mcft, according to Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply
and Sewerage Board (Chennai Metro).
The Chembarambakkam lake (full capacity 3,645 mcft) has water level of mere 1 mcft.
Palaniswami
said water from desalination projects is also being distributed to
people and urged people to cooperate with the government as ground water
will be supplied for next four/five months till rains begin in
October/November.
As regards water from the Telugu Ganga Scheme
or Krishna Water, Palaniswami said only water could only be released to
Tamil Nadu if there is 8 tmc of water in Kadaleru dam in Andha Pradesh.
The water level at Kadaleru dam is presently about 4 tmc.
Palaniswami
also said that water from the Mettur Dam is being released to fill up
the Veeranam lake to supply drinking water to Chennai.
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