Shimla residents to get daily water supply from Sept 16: Mayor

Residents of Himachal capital, reeling under acute water shortage can heave a sigh of relief as mayor of Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) has announced daily supply of water in all localities from Friday.
The Mayor, Sanjay Chauhan, who inspected the Giri water supply along with staff of Corporation, said the Giri water supply scheme was providing 6 to 9 MLD (mega litre per day) of water whereas 4 to 6 MLD of water was going waste due to massive leakage in the main pipelines.
The work is in progress to replace 1000 mt long pipe line in the first phase and 500 mt long pipeline would be replaced by September 30, augmenting the supply by 2 MLD, Mayor said adding that the SMC was spending Rs 3.52 crore on replacement of leaking pipelines.

The leakages in the distribution system would also be plugged under Amrit project and more than 12 MLD of water would be available from Giri.
The Mayor also inspected the Deh Khud where the mud and debris has flown into the water sources during the monsoon and pumping of water was being affected.
The people in several localities were not getting water even on fourth and fifth day and the system of supplying water on alternate days has virtually collapsed.
People were demonstrating in different localities by beating empty buckets and raising slogans against the SMC and the state government.