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Dirty water was supplied in the city of Jodhpur due to soil flowing from Punjab. Shutdown was done to fix this system.
Due to heavy rains in Punjab recently, soil was also washed away along with rain water in the Indira Gandhi Canal. This was the reason that during drinking water supply in most areas of Jodhpur city, dirty water was coming from the taps. Most people complained about this. For this reason, the water supply department had to shut down the water supply one day and change many machines and filters.
Prakash Bafna, executive engineer of the water supply department, said that there was a sudden increase in the amount of soil in the water coming from Punjab in the Indira Gandhi canal. In such a situation, the equipment installed in the filter housing could not clean such a large amount of soil with water. This is the reason why dirty water was supplied in many places in the city for a few days.
Due to this, the water supply department took a shutdown of water supply for 24 hours. In which larger filter housing machines were repaired and filter equipment was also replaced. Due to heavy rains in Punjab for the past few days, this soil flowed into the canal.
Now there will be no suspension for 3 months
After the month of June, the suspension of water supply was stopped every 15 days in the water supply department. But when there was suddenly a one-day suspension, attempts were made to start this suspension again. But the water supply department has denied any regular shutdown for the next 3 months.
Adequate storage of water
This time, at the time of canalization, more water than capacity was stored in Surpura along with Kaylana-Takhtsagar, Jodhpur’s main reservoir. For this reason, more water was saved than expected when the 60-day closure of the canal was completed. Then the inflow of water due to rain due to storm Biparjoy also filled the reservoirs and now there will be no need to take water cut before December.
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