Click to play videoNew Delhi: Thursday was yet another day without water for Pune resident Sunetra Pandhare. The city is reeling under a 40 per cent water cut which means that most areas get water only every alternate day.
“Our area is supposed to get water from 2-6 am. I got up at 4 am but there was no water,” an exasperated Sunetra said.
The four dams that supply water to Pune have run dry, two of them completely. Pune requires 15 TMC of water annually but it currently has only 1 TMC, enough just till the end of this month.
The 35-lakh residents of Pune are now left with no option but to depend on water tankers which cost as much as much as Rs 1,000. But Pune isn't the only city in the middle of a crisis, Mumbai is feeling the heat as well.
In Mumbai, while the rains have finally hit the city, the BMC still had to cut water supplies by 30 per cent. That is because of low rainfall in Mumbai's catchment area, which is the main supplier to the city. It rained just 886 mm in this area, a dismal number compared to over 2100 mm last year.
Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit pre-empting a Mumbai-like crisis is sounding a cautious note. “If it doesn’t rain then we are in for big trouble,” Dixit said.
And tired of the situation, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan is turning to the Gods, performing yagyas as 39 cities in the state have run dry.
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