Kolkata: Some residents of the South Kolkata Tony area of ​​Hindustan Park, Purna Das Road and Rashbehari Avenue have struggled against severe water shortages, buying water from KMC and personal trust in the past two weeks.
KMC has launched a probe into the reason behind the problem because there is no shortage of supply from reservoir tallah through the Auckland Square booster pump station or from the Kalighat Booster Pump Station.
Cannot bear a prolonged water crisis, the residents of the locality filed a memorandum to the KMC executive engineer earlier this week, looking for a solution.
“There is no water pressure.
As a result, we did not get half of the amount of water that had come before,” said Octogenarian Dhrubajyyoti Chaudhuri, who has lived in the area for decades.
Initially, many thought the problem was with their individual household and had to do with ferrule or blockage of the supply line from the main pipe to the underground reservoir.
But soon, they realized other people also suffered.
“All houses will be dry.
We have to buy water every alternative day.
This is a working channel.
The new KMC just takes notes and seems to see the problem,” said Pratip Mukherjee, another resident.
The KMC air department official on Wednesday installed a meter in several bags to check the water pressure there.
“To find the real cause, we need to know the right water pressure in some environments around the Hindustan Park,” said an official.
Dev Sen Household Bhalo-Basha has not faced a water crisis, maybe because there aren’t too many occupants since the author of Nabanita Dev Sen last year.
“When other people complain about the decrease in water pressure, there must be a problem,” said between Dev Sen who lived in a family home.
He showed the character of the area had changed from being sleepy parases to be carried out by using locality with restaurants and boutiques.
Also, many large houses have been replaced with multi-storey buildings.
The two-storey house, with family on each floor in the past, has given the way to a five-story building with two to three flats on each floor.
Changed demographics have put pressure on resources.
“Most new homes and even older ones have shops on the ground floor.
This is a floating crowd that spends all weekdays in the area.
Pressure on resources can be understood,” said Shyamasree Chatterjee (75), from Rashbehari Avenue.
A KMC water supply official said engineers would try to find all kinds of gaps in additional pipes that supplied water to households.