Summary:
Liquor manufacturer MP Distilleries gets 33,000 litres of treated drinking water from the reservoir daily at the same discounted tariff. “The water guzzlers of Kanjikode include half-a-dozen liquor manufacturing plants, dyeing units, steel rerolling mills and iron smelting units. Interestingly, the RTI reply given by the regional office of KWA confirms that there was no formal agreement between the State government agency and managements of UB Distilleries and MP Distilleries over round the clock supply of drinking water for industrial use. more-inThough Palakkad is the worst-drought affected district in the State, it slakes the thirst of over a dozen water guzzling enterprises at concessional tariff in the Kanjikode industrial belt. “Liquor barons have free access round the clock to the water resources of the region while the drinking water supply in the region is limited to just one hour a day,” points out Mr Rajeev..