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CHENNAI: Domestic water supply in the city has been increased by three million litres daily (mld) for a week now to meet the rising demand in the summer months. According to a Chennai Metrowater official, the water supplied to domestic consumers through pipeline and tankers has been increased to 586 mld to match the rising demand. The total volume of water supplied to the city, including industrial and bulk purposes, has been increased from 645 mld to 650 mld. About 1,150 tanker trips are being operated to supply areas that do not have piped water supply. This would be further stepped up depending on the summer demand, he said. Residents’ complaints However, residents of areas such as Koyambedu and Villivakkam complained that for a week now they are not getting piped water supply. Residents of Anna Nagar West said that water supplied through pipeline was murky for the past ten days. The official said the problem in these areas would have occurred due to local faults, which would be rectified. Reservoir storage On the reservoirs’ storage, the official said even though there was an evaporation loss, the storage level was sufficient to sustain the present water supply till the year-end. The total storage level of the three reservoirs - Red Hills, Cholavaram and Poondi – stood at 5,317 million cubic feet (mcft), which is an all time high for this period of the year since 1945, on Monday as against the 3,990 mcft recorded during the same period last year. The official pointed out the Chembarambakkam reservoir was not taken into account as water was being drawn from the reservoir only from 2000. However, the combined storage level of the four reservoirs also touched the highest of 7,373 million cubic feet on Monday. At present, about 400 cubic feet per second of water is being discharged from Poondi reservoir to the one at Red Hills in order to take up repair work in the Kandaleru- Poondi canal located upstream of the reservoir. A Public Works Department official said works such as construction of retention wall and stone pitching on the slope above the canal was being carried out by the Sri Satya Sai Trust. The decision on request for water release from Kandaleru reservoir at Andhra Pradesh would be taken after the completion of work in July, the PWD official said. Scorching summerWhile the situation on the waterfront seems comfortable, the city has been experiencing uncomfortably hot days with the mercury level soaring beyond the 40 degrees Celsius mark since May 1. On Monday, the maximum temperature at Nungambakkam touched 41.4 degrees Celsius, 6 degrees Celsius above the average maximum temperature. Meenambakkam recorded 42.2 degrees Celsius.
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