Despite crores being spent for Nanghat gravity drinking water scheme, the water scarcity is far from being over for the people of Pauri. They have been facing the crisis in many parts of the town for the past seven days. They say that the lesser volume of water being supplied from the Nanghat Project is spawning the crisis.
Notably, supply of water from Nanghat drinking water scheme for Pauri started in 2012. It was inaugurated by former Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on November 12 2012. The people who are bearing the brunt of things say that the Nanghat Project has failed to serve its purpose because of severe anomalies existing in the supply system.
The officials of Jal Nigam Construction Division Pauri claimed that leakage of the pipelines, faulty electric line and some snags that have developed in the Nanghat transformer have resulted in the dwindle of the supply.
Assistant engineer Jal Nigam, Mamta Tewari, who is looking after the Nanghat gravity drinking water scheme, told The Pioneer that the project has been facing pumping problem. “For the past few days, supply of electricity has remained erratic. Compounding things, the transformer is not working. Some snags have developed. We wrote to the electricity wing of Jal Nigam for the maintenance of electricity line on February 26. We hope things would be corrected soon,” she said. She further said that the discharge of gravity has come down, aggravating the problem. She admitted that as much as 40 lPM water is leaking at three or four places of the pipe lines and only 12lPM water is being supplied.