A large number of people in 15 localities in the city on Tuesday suffered due to a shortage of water caused by leakages in the supply pipeline and other mechanical faults as the civic body failed to ensure proper maintenance of the water supply pipelines even after much delay.
People said even after lodging complaints, Jal Sansthan failed to send water tanks.

Meanwhile, the supply of foul-smelling contaminated water took place in a few localities, including Awas Vikas, Sadar Bhatti, Prakash Nagar, Chandra Nagar, parts of Dayalbagh and Kamla Nagar locality.

The water supply in Old City areas is dependent on the Jeevani Mandi waterworks station, whereas nearly half of the city gets water supply from the Sikandra waterworks.

Both the stations have not been working to their full capacity. Besides, thousands of litres of water in different parts of the city go to waste daily due to around 20 leakages in the water supply pipelines maintained by Jal Sansthan.

According to an estimate, at least 50 million litres per day (MLD) water is wasted in the city due to pipeline leakages. So far, Jal Sansthan has no city-wide plan to check the situation. To fix the leakages, Jal Sansthan makes temporary arrangements that last only for a few days.

Due to the damages in the supply pipeline, the water supply to two dozen localities — including Awas Vikas, Sikandra, Dayalbagh, trans Yamuna, Baluganj, Mantola, Subhas Bazaar, Transport Nagar, Kailash road, Balkeshwar Locality, Belanganj, Daresi, Rawatpara, Noori Darwaza, Shahganj, Madia Katra, Lohamandi, Idgha etc — were affected.

Agra Jal Sansthan general manager RS Yadav said, “We are working to fix all the leakages. As the pipelines are too old and weak, they are unable to sustain the water pressure and getting leakages. We are working on the plan to lay new pipelines in areas with frequent leakages.”

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