Skewed water supply across Rajasthan

Jaipur, May 13 (UNI) With water supply of 199 litre per capita per day, residents of Kota in the desert state may find themselves comparatively comfortable to meet their increased summer requirements.

Contrary to this, denizens of this tiny town of Naraina in Jaipur district are not lucky enough to beat the summer heat with meagre supply of 23 litre per capita per day.

A Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) document on status of summer water supply in the state during the current season revealed that people in Kota, on the bank of the Chambal river, were getting 147 rpt 147 per cent of the desired level of water supply while Naraina town was getting only 33 per cent of the desired water supply.

The situation in Fatehnagar in Udaipur district and Sojat city in Pali district was also more or less the same as the two towns were presently getting 30 litre per capita per day water supply which is 43 per cent of the desired supply level.

Both the towns are getting water supply once in every 48 hours.

The above two towns are among those 58 towns which are getting water supply on alternate day (every 48 hours). These cities and towns included Ajmer, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Sirohi, Nagaur, Beawer, Merta city, Bhilwara, Makrana, Rajgarh and Khetri.

Three towns -- Barmer, Balotra(Barmer district) and Gangapur (Bhilwara district) -- are getting water supply once in three day (every 72 hours).

Quantitatively, Barmer is getting 70 litre water per capita per day where as Balotra getting 83 litre per capita per day (118.5 oer cent of desired level). As compared to this, Gangapur is being supplied 45 litre per capita per day against desired level of 70 litres.

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