Acute water shortage in Chennai
Posted on: 28/Sep/2015 11:10:07 AM
There is a water shortage in the city .The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is taking various steps to overcome this. With storage dwindling in the four principal water sources � Poondi, Cholavaram, Red Hills and Chembarambakkam � Chennai Metrowater has now increased drawing water from farm wells.
To bridge the shortfall in supply from the main reservoirs, Metrowater is drawing 120 mld from from 273 agricultural wells in Ramarajan Kandigai, Velliyur, Moovur, Pullarambakkam and Karanai in Tiruvallur district.With surface water drying up, it has turned to groundwater sources and started tapping additional water from well fields
