Sukhbir Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister Punjab has issued instructions to the Water Supply Department to construct tanks with minimum capacity of 15 days in every village in Punjab to ensure uninterrupted potable water supply.
Badal emphasized that this additional storage capacity was necessary especially for the villages being supplied potable water through canal based schemes. He said that due to rotational closure of canals for repair or any other reason, every village should have storage capacity equivalent to 15 days usage of the villages. The water supply department was asked to quickly the survey the villages and upgrade the capacity of the tank where ever required.
Taking a serious note of illegal water connections and tullu pumps installed on the water line, Badal instructed immediate removal of tullu pumps.
Badal said that besides installation of reverse osmosis (RO) treatment plants in every difficult village in Malwa and a belt of Majha being supplied water through canal based water supply schemes, double ultra filtration technology should be installed in all villages being supplied water supply through tubewells.
RO Systems were said to be working successfully in 327 villages of 8 districts at a cost of Rs. 34.82 Crores (US$ 7.2 million).
Source: Kanwal Preet Kaur, PunjabNewsline, 08 Sep 2009
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