Residents of the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) and the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) are being provided more water than their daily requirements. “The PHEO is supplying 295.30 million litre of water in the BMC against its requirement of 122.62 million litre and 101.29 million water in the CMC area against requirement of 85.05 million litre daily. The per capita need of water in both the cities is 135 litre,” Housing and Urban Development Minister Pushendra Singh Deo stated in the Assembly on Friday.
In a written reply to a question put by Golak Bihari Nayak, the Minister said a total of 3,750 private water connectivity pipes either have been repaired or replaced in Cuttack. Keeping summer in view, the Public Health Department is supplying water trough tankers in the water scarcity areas, the Minister informed.