More Water Cuts For Pune

Administration Cautious Over Scarcity

Some water in the form of drizzle came in Pune city today even as the city reeled under water scarcity. The dams providing water to citizens are running dry. Guardian minister of Pune and state water resources minister Ajit Pawar today announced some measures to check the water scarcity, but in absence of sufficient rains, it is way far from satisfactory.

Pawar held a meeting today in which officials from various departments were participated. Besides divisional commissioner Dilip Bund, Pune Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Zagade and mayor Rajlaxmi Bhosale with mayor of Pimpri Chinchwad Aparna Doke were present in the meeting. The reduction in water supply was increased from 30 percent to 40 percent in the meeting. Along with it, every ward in the city will have five bore wells now as well as each ward will be supplied water with tanker. Water in the Veer, Bhatghar, Khadakwasla, Varasgaon, Panshet, Pavana and Temghar will be reserved only for the drinking purposes.

Pune experienced some rains today which expects to revives sales of these hawkers who had a very bad season this year.

Pawar said that even after about a month since the onset of monsoon, the rainfall in the vicinity of city is not sufficient. Water supply to the city is done through six dams and on average, the storage in these dams is way below 10 percent.

PMC gets around 11.5 TMC (Thousand Million Cubic Metre) water from the four dams per ay. Now, the stock of water is 0.54 TMC which might get over in about 15 days.