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Despite spending so much on maintenance, every month there is an issue related to water supply , she rued.However, the civic body officials claimed that they didn’t get any major complaint related to inadequate supply. This might have reduced supply by 40MLD,” said officials. This has reduced supply pressure by 10 per cent even after alternative arrangements made by the civic body.“We have already installed a valve at Bijalpur to divert water from third phase to second phase. Frequent leakages in old trunk lines up to Bijalpur distribution station had prompted IMC to carry out this pipeline replacement work. Tanks like Annapurna, Gandhi Nagar, Buddh Nagar were affected due to poor supply pressure.“They have already reduced supply from regular to alternate days, and supply pressure has also gone down, due to which we could store half amount of water as compared to regular days,” said Mahesh Sharma of Gandhi Nagar.Another Annapurna resident Purnima Verma said, “We could not get enough water..