Gurugram: For people living in Gurugram already grappling with a water crisis, drinking water will now be in short supply as the raw water input sent to the Basai and Chandu Budhera water treatment plants has dipped considerably in the last 15 days, officials aware of the matter said. The GMDA supplies 570 MLD of water daily to the city from its Basai and Chandu Budhera plants, where it treats the raw water, it gets from the Yamuna supplied by the irrigation department.
In such a scenario, GMDA recognizes and is solving any leakage detected at the earliest. A leakage at CRPF Chowk was detected and repair work was initiated immediately to avoid difficulty.
Normally, the city gets supply of about 250 cusecs from the NCR water channel and the Gurugram water channel but in the last fortnight, the supply has reduced to an average 190 cusecs, the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) officials said.
While the plant maintain a minimum of 3 days of water supply at their plants, the reduced input of raw water has brought down the buffer stock to two days at present, informed the GMDA officials.
According to the authority, the demand in the city has surged in the last few years due to a steep rise in population in developing residential sectors. Despite having a buffer of three-days water supply for the city, any reduction in availability of raw water from Yamuna significantly impacts the storage and is also expected to hit the drinking water supply if the shortage continues for too long.
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