Chennai: Sri Sarvamangala Nagar Residents’ Association, Chitlapakkam, recently arranged a fact-finding meeting of its executive committee and other residents, to tackle the present water crisis.
Convener of Co-ordination Committee of Welfare Associations of Chitlapakkam, P Viswanathan, was present on the occasion. All the people in the gathering gave their suggestions to cope up with the grave problem.
As an immediate solution, it was decided to hand over an appeal, signed by residents of the nagar to the Executive Officer, Chitlapakkam Town Panchayat, and to all the officers, to supply water to residents of the nagar at shorter intervals, regularly.
Further, it was decided that water supplied by the Panchayat in some places in the nagar needed to be regulated for even distribution to all residents, and the wasted water in generation of purified water (through a R.O. machine), that is required to be recycled, to stop the enormous wastage of ground resource.
Association secretary M Ravi informed that as decided at the meeting, all the concerned issues will be addressed for immediate action.
Ravi further said since Chitlapakkam is not included in the integrated supply scheme and due to paucity of water in the Palar river, the supply by TWAD Board was totally stopped for the past several months.
“This has made the residents of the locality depend solely on underground source. Chitlapakkam and its vicinity, is at present echoing with sounds of drilling of bore wells and movement of lorries, thus making residents to spend more to quench their thirst. The Chitlapakkam Town Panchayat authorities are currently executing the ongoing work for implementation of Madambakkam-Chitlapakkam Integrated Water Scheme, which may take some more time to function,” he added.