Water crisis trouble housing societies

CHANDIGARH: Residents of housing societies, particularly those in southern sectors of the city, are facing a lot of problems due to water shortage. While residents living on ground floors get low water pressure, those on first floor and above have their taps parched. And due to the shortage, not only has the water supply of afternoon hours been disturbed, but morning and evening hours too have been affected.Fed up of complaining with the municipal corporation, residents of housing societies are meeting their water needs on their own by filling buckets from the ground floor.
J L Sharma, president of New Light Co-op Housing Society in Sector 51, said, “Due to poor water supply we have to arrange water tankers to fill the common tank of the housing society. Residents of different floors fill water in their buckets from the common tank as the water pressure is not enough to reach the upper floors.”
Another resident and chairman of Chandigarh Housing Federation, J P Arya said, “These days there is acute shortage of water. We store it in the housing common tank and later supply it to different floors through motors. Despite this, we get low water pressure.”
“Our society has a storage tank of 50,000 litres and booster pumps, but the shortage is so acute that we need to call water tankers from outside to fulfill our water requirements,” said Tejinder Singh of Industrialist Society in Sector 51 D.
Abhimanyu Sharma of Sector 44 A, said, “My mother faces a lot of inconvenience while storing water for daily consumption. Moreover, to make things worse, there is no fixed timing for water supply in our homes but surprisingly the fountains at public parks start functioning from 8pm!”
“Water supply in our society very erratic. I live on third floor and use motor to boost the water supply to our floor, but motor is no solution as it’s an expensive proposition and besides the water pressure is extremely low,” said Manorma Singh of a society in Sector 48 A.