Contaminated water supply to Dalita Peta

Akiveedu: The women of Dalita Peta in Pedakapavaram village in Akiveedu mandal are facing acute drinking water problem even before onset of summer. The water supplied by the Panchayati was fully contaminated and not fit to drink as the Panchayati officials did not filter it.

Women of the locality expressed their agony that the Panchayat officials had been supplying the contaminated water to Dalita Peta only while other areas of the village were getting filtered water. They alleged that the fishpond wastewater was directly released into the irrigation channels from where the Panchayat was lifting the water to supply to Dalita Peta. The colony women alleged that the Panchayat officials were showing apathy on the Dalita Peta in the village.

Meanwhile, drinking water tanks in almost all the villages in Akiveedu mandal exhausted before summer. Almost all the paddy fields have been converted into fish ponds in about 15 Grama Panchayats in the mandal, causing contamination of drinking water.

Following the contamination of water, all Panchayats have ready to set up alum treatment plants, which were stopped at the foundation stone-level. There might be a severe drinking water problem if the situation continued like this, the villagers expressed fears.