Kakinada: The Government's programme to ensure round the clock water supply in the municipal corporation is unlikely to materialise at least for some months. The municipal water supply system is quite old and the lines will not cater to the requirements of the rapidly growing town.

Reservoir issue

The entire system should be modified. To overcome the problems, the authorities are understood to have suggested implementing the plan on a trial basis in a specified sector, delinking it from the other areas of the town.

Even for delinking an area, official sources said, they required a minimum of three to four months time. Tentatively they have identified Vidyutnagar area and presented a scheme for approval at the just concluded officials meet at Hyderabad.

Another hurdle is the availability of water in the city overhead reservoirs. For augmentation of municipal water supply, the second water filtration plant, which is under final stage of construction, should be made operational.

The twelve km pipeline project being laid at a cost of Rs.16 crores to draw water from the Samalkot canal near Sambamurthy reservoir, to augment the town water supply system, is also facing similar problems. Unless the pipeline is linked to the main water works and to the second water filtration plant the plan of improving water supply would remain incomplete.

Unlike the Aratlakatta water pumping scheme, the pipeline scheme would draw water by gravitation removing the need for pumping water at a high cost every month. Hence it is considered economical for the Corporation.

The laying of RCC pipeline was almost completed except at three patches . It might take a minimum of three months to make it fully operational.

Since the implementation of round the clock water supply plan is linked to the project, people will have to wait till March for uninterrupted water supply, official sources said.

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