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| Jammu region facing water crisis ahead of summer | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 23
Peak summers are still few months away yet residents across Jammu city and other districts in the region are facing acute problem in the absence of continuous supply of drinking water.
Official sources said, due to delay in completion of various projects huge gap between the demand and the supply is causing lot of hardships to residents of Jammu.
A senior PHE department official said we have taken up number of schemes in hand, including construction of 10 bore wells, having a capacity of supplying one lakh gallons of water per day, yet people in the Jammu city and scores of localities on its outskirts have to bear water shortage because there is a gap of about 11 lakh million gallons of water between the daily demand and availability. On the other hand, some of the schemes in the remote areas of Poonch, Rajouri, Udhampur, Doda, Kathua and Samba districts, besides Reasi and Ramnagar belts were being executed at a slow pace because adequate funds were not being released on time.
Engineers of Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department said that the water shortage is not only in Jammu city but in other areas of the entire state adding that the problem would ease by 2009 end when several major water filtration plants would be completed. Official sources said under the Bharat Nirman Programme, over 550 filtration plants were being constructed. Several mega projects were being to augment water supply in Jammu and Srinagar cities. In addition, water supply schemes in 48 towns have been taken up at an estimated cost of Rs.630 crores, the official sources said.
The PHE engineers claimed that after the third unit of the Sitlee filtration plant was commissioned, the water availability in Jammu city has improved because this unit supplied 70 lakh gallons of water per day. The Chief Minister has directed the Department to add three more units in Sitlee so that water shortage ended in the city. |
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