Struggle for drinking water in Ponnampet

Ponnampet, Mar. 3: The drinking water problem has been emerging in many areas of the town including T.R. Road, Torebeedi, Nisarganagar in Ponnampet town for the last two months, and now the problem has become more severe, and the people here are struggling without water.

Since the groundwater in the borewell installed in the tank that supplies water to Ponnampet town has dried up, many days have passed without water in most of the taps. Water was supplied to the tank from a borewell installed in a well. But recently, due to the depletion of groundwater, it is not possible to supply water without water in the well.

Town Panchayat, no help despite it

The citizens here had been suffering from the drinking water problem for many years. The citizens were hopeful that the problem would be solved if Ponnampet was upgraded to a town panchayat. But even after years of being a town panchayat, the town panchayat has not yet made any alternative arrangements.

The administration, which has relied on the borewells installed in the well, has not gone to the trouble of finding a suitable place, finding a water tank, digging a new borewell and solving the water problem.

Water scramble on Torebidi - Mini tank annoyance

People are facing difficulties on T.R. Road here as there is no water in the taps. Even in this area, water was supplied at least once a week from the town's main tank.

People used to store the water they received in drums, pots and jars and use it. Now, as there is no water in the taps, there is a water scramble.

A mini tank was built on the private land of a resident of T.R. Road many years ago. Out of the four taps in the tank, one tap has been left to the owner of the house on the 4th page (from the first page) and the public can draw water from the remaining three taps. The mini tank is filled from the borewell installed in the well near Gourikere in Shiva Colony, and the people of this area can draw water from there. Water is supplied to this mini tank three times a week. A family gets about 10 buckets of water from this. They stand in queues to draw water.

But recently, the owner of the house who gave the land for the tank construction has been complaining to the public that people are putting the buckets in front of the house and that they are bothering the people who come to draw water every day.

Therefore, local citizens have urged the town panchayat to keep the tank at a different place.

Report: Channanayaka

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