The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Leak plugged, water supply restored in Kengeri

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Saturday, Jul 01, 2006

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Leak plugged, water supply restored in Kengeri

Staff Reporter

There was no water supply in the area for one week

PRECIOUS: A resident of KHB Colony, Kengeri, collecting water from a leaking pipe on Friday. — Photo: K. Murali Kumar

BANGALORE: Drinking water had become scarce for over 2,000 residents of Kengeri Satellite Town near the city for the past one week. The residents had been deprived of their daily water supply (both through the Cauvery lines and the public taps) thanks to a huge water pipeline burst in the area.

Officials from the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) finally got the leak plugged on Friday after gallons of water had been wasted and residents were put to hardship.

Complaints in vain

"We used to get Cauvery water on alternate days through individual connections and borewell water through public taps. But for the last one week there was no supply and repeated complaints to the authorities were in vain," Panduranga, an affected resident, said.

Though the residents of Shirke Colony in front of the Karnataka Housing Board (KHB) office complained to the authorities about the pipeline burst, no efforts were made to plug the leak. "It is unfortunate that the authorities did nothing to plug the leak and stop water wastage," he said.

Borewell line

When contacted, the jurisdictional BWSSB executive engineer Narayan said that the leak was detected in the pipeline that supplied water to the houses from one of the four borewells in the area. "Though the borewells are run and maintained by the Kengeri Town Municipal Council (TMC), we attended to the problem and plugged the leak on Friday," he said.

Pointing out that it was a joint leak in a two inch galvanised iron pipe, Mr Narayan said: "We have also informed the TMC authorities to ensure proper maintenance of the pipelines."

This apart, the BWSSB had also taken up work on shifting of the 18-inch valve on the Ring Road as it obstructed traffic movement.

"It was because of this we had stopped the supply for three days. The problem aggravated after the borewell water supply was also affected following the leak," Mr Narayan explained and added that the problem had been solved now.

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