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Kakinada suburbs reel under acute water crisis
The residents in the suburbs of Kakinada city, particularly the fisherfolk areas of Parlovapeta and Dummulapeta, are still facing severe drinking water shortage, so much so for Smart City tag.Around one lakh people of different localities are facing severe dearth of drinking water. Pagadalapeta and Drivers’ Colony under Turangi village which was merged into corporation is no exception
Kakinada: The residents in the suburbs of Kakinada city, particularly the fisherfolk areas of Parlovapeta and Dummulapeta, are still facing severe drinking water shortage, so much so for Smart City tag.Around one lakh people of different localities are facing severe dearth of drinking water. Pagadalapeta and Drivers’ Colony under Turangi village which was merged into corporation is no exception.
Lack of elected body, since the completion of previous term in the year 2011, political interference, merger of surrounding villages, division of Kakinada into two Assembly constituencies, lack of accountability on part of officials, postponement of civic body polls under one pretext or other are said to the major reasons for the existing situation.
This has driven the population to depend on water tankers or on the meagre water supply they get hardly for one hour twice in the morning and evening in a day. Even residents in Recharla Peta, a locality in the middle of the town, were being forced to depend on tankers.
Residents of Dummulapeta fishermen areas, Garikina China Sattibabu and Garikina Satyavati carry water on day-to-day basis on a tricycle from Sambamurty Nagar area over head tank, about one-and-half kilometre away from the place they live.
“The one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening supplies are not sufficient to our family requirements as the water pressure usually remains low,” they said.
The residents of neighbouring Parlovapeta are also facing similar problems and use steel and other utensils at the public tap as mark of their right of reservation.A resident of Parlovapeta, Konagatla Lakshmi said they only depend on turn system to fetch one container of water every day at public tap. “Because of this we had to depend on saline water from the bore wells in the area for our daily needs,” she said.
Social activist and former corporator, Dusarlapudi Ramona Raju observed that there should be some relaxation of norms laid for new tap connections. “Because of these norms several people were being deprived of new tap connections in areas like Recharla Peta in the middle of the town and had to depend in water tankers from corporation” he said.
He also said the immediate conduct of polls to the civic body would find some solutions to the existing problems in the form of accountability.Despite several attempts the in charge EE for Kakinada Corporation water supplies Suryanarayana could not be contacted.
By L Anjaneyulu
