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An equipment developed by engineers of Chennai metrowater to clean manholes without anyone entering in them received an award from the Union ministry of housing and urban development on Monday.

The slow servers at banks authorized to facilitate metrowater tanker bookings online, has crimped the plans of residents, forcing them to buy from private operators at exorbitant rates.

metrowater, which annually awards contracts worth m o r e t h a n Rs 2,500 crore including Rs250 crore for maintenance work, continues with the box-andcover tender system in spite of the many pitfalls and despite corruption being exposed.

Problems of drinking water shortage continue to affect residents across the city, but Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, known as metrowater, appears impervious to their complaints.

The first half of this water year, which ended on September 30, saw metrowater receive 480 crore in water tax. The amount is 108 crore higher than the sum collected during the first half of the previous year.

The metrowater authorities have cleaned machine holes, de-silted sewer main lines and cleaned sewer lines on 1,460 streets in 15 areas in the city. This is the second time the metrowater has completed the cleaning and desilting works before the onset of monsoon season.

he metrowater authorities have cleaned machine holes, de-silted sewer main lines and cleaned sewer lines on 1,460 streets in 15 areas in the city. This is the second time the metrowater has completed the cleaning and desilting works before the onset of monsoon season.

The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has called for explanations from the metrowater giving reasons for the ‘avoidable expense of Rs 6.95’ crore cited in the Comptroller and Auditor-General’s report.

metrowater, which has started supplying piped water, on Monday asked residents to clean up their sumps.

A day after a 32-year-old manual scavenger died of asphyxiation during sewer pipeline work in a manhole at Mogappair here, metrowater on Thursday decided to suspend all non-emergency sewage-related works by its contractors for a week.

metrowater will soon hire a private agency to find out how much groundwater is being drawn in various parts of the city. It will also find out the number of open wells and borewells in the city and the groundwater levels in different areas. This is because hardly anyone responded when it asked house-owners to register their wells with it.

The city’s population is booming but metrowater’s projects don’t seem to have kept pace. Most pipes are old and rusty, and the extended areas are yet to get connections.

metrowater had reduced 60 lakh litres of water from its daily supply to several consumers this year, vis-a-vis the corresponding period of the last year.

Chennai metrowater has designed and developed a machine to clean clogged sewage lines without anyone entering manholes.

metrowater officials said they were unable to meet the demand of residential colonies as their priority is to supply free water to the slums.

Municipal administration minister S P Velumani on Wednesday refuted news reports which exposed metrowater Board not being convened even once in the last two years, and claimed that the reports were based on “false information.”

Residents complain that metrowater drivers demand extra money to pump water into sumps. “Every time I book water via the 'Dial for Water 2.0' portal, the driver forces me to pay 200-250 extra if he has to pump water into our sump,” said Gurunathan Dhanapal, a resident of Manali. Twice a month, he books a 9 kL lorry for 700, which he has to pay online.

In the face of severe water crisis, borewells in Tiruvallur district have turned saviours for Chennaiites as metrowater has started tapping more than 300 borewells in the district to supply 110 million litres a day to the city.