To facilitate the availability of water in train coaches at Sambalpur City Railway Station, a new system called “Quick Watering System” has been approved by the Railway Board at a cost of Rs 5.43 crore.
Quick watering facilities will help in better water supply and availability of water in passenger coaches. The facility not only provides a fast mechanism to provide water to all passengers in trains, it also avoids wastage of water. Apart from this, a 24-coach train can be filled up within five minutes and multiple trains can be watered.
Railways provide water as a passenger amenity in all the train coaches. Watering of coaches is regularly done at nominated Railway Stations so that passengers do not have to face water crisis while making a train journey. But, watering of trains also takes a lot of time. Under the conventional system, a train of 24 coaches normally takes about 20 minutes to fill water.