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SME Times News Bureau | 12 Jul, 2019
In an effort to meet the water requirements of a parched Chennai, a
special 50 wagon train carrying water from Tamil Nadu's Vellore district
reached the state capital on Friday, a Southern Railway official said.
According to the official, each wagon carried 50,000 litres of water. The total water carried was 25 lakh litres.
The
train was flagged off from the Jolarpettai station in the morning and
reached Villivakam station here. The wagons will be emptied and the
water will be sent to the Kilpauk pumping station for further
distribution.
Earlier, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami
had announced the state government's plans to transport 10 million
litres of water daily by rail from Jolarpettai.
He said a sum of Rs 65 crore had been allocated for this purpose.
Currently
the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (Chennai Metro
Water) is supplying about 525 million litres per day (MLD) in the state
capital. The water from Jolarpettai will augment the existing supply.
While
the Cholavaram (full capacity 1,081 mcft) and Redhills (full capacity
3,300 mcft) reservoirs and Chembarambakkam lake (full capacity 3,645
mcft) that supply water to Chennai have run dry, 16 mcft water is left
in the Poondi reservoir (against a full capacity of 3,231 mcft),
according to the Chennai Metro Water.
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