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| After curfew rains make life miserable in Jammu | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 17: Jammu is facing acute shortage of potable water subjecting thousands of people to inconvenience. The shortage has been caused by incessant reins Though the public health engineering department officials have been doing hard to come to the expectations of people but a lot more needs to be done to restore water supply. Presently, the PHE department is using water tankers across the region to supply the water but they haven't been able to meet the need of the people. In rural areas all major taps of water have been either washed away due to floods or not in good condition to provide safe and pure drinking water.
People living in rural areas where the road connectivity are facing difficulties to get the drinking water. The water tankers being used by the PHE department are only supplying water to urban areas and few rural pockets where the road connectivity is proper. Rest of the areas has been put on the mercy of God.
The PHE department is one of the most important departments of the state which is directly connected to the people at every level and giving good and break free services are the daily duty of the department.
The government of Jammu and Kashmir has been trying hard to meet the need of the people at all level but due to incessant rains for past more than four days, people are facing acute shortage of safe and pure drinking water.
The main problem is in flood affected areas of Rajouri and Poonch district where floods have left thousands of people homeless. The situation in erstwhile district Doda is also not good and people are left with no option but to store the rain water for drinking and other purposes.The government must come up with a concrete and long term plan toaddress the water woes of people of Jammu region. |
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