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By Express News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Water supply was disrupted in various parts of the city when Kerala Water Authority stopped pumping from the Aruvikkara water treatment plant on Tuesday. The pumping was stopped to plug a leak on a pipeline carrying water from the 72 million litres a day (MLD) plant to the Observatory hill. According to Santhosh Kumar R V, executive engineer PH Division (North), the leak had been plugged and pumping of water had restarted. The KWA had recently replaced ageing pump sets and electric equipment at two major water treatment plant in Aruvikara. The four-stage exercise that started from December 13 resulted in planned supply disruption for several days till February 2..