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more-inThe water crisis in the city and its suburbs worsened on Tuesday with packaged drinking water manufacturers announcing an indefinite strike, protesting against the restrictions on groundwater drawal. As the agitation by private water tankers entered the second day, the announcement of strike by the Greater Tamil Nadu Packaged Drinking Water Manufacturers Association came as a shock to residents and institutions and commercial establishments like hotels. V.
Murali, founder of the association, said 1,542 water packaging units across the State were closed since Tuesday evening. If the government order prohibiting groundwater extraction was implemented, nearly 75% of the units would face the threat of closure and it would lead to a hike in prices of water, he added. Of this, about 450 were located around Chennai..