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Mission To Save Water,KMC To Issue Tubewell Licences After Investigation Dept Clears ApplicationsBy parul118, Section Water
At long last, sermons on depletion of groundwater in Kolkata will be replaced by some real action. Licenses to install new tubewells will be issued after a thorough scrutiny and only after officials have visited the site and are satisfied that a tubewell is absolutely necessary.
That's if officials of Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the state water investigation department implement their joint decision without the corruption that often creeps into any licensing process. The KMC-SWID tieup comes after experts warned that the groundwater level in the central business district, had declined to as low as 50 feet in 2001 from about 15 feet in the 80s. A joint committee comprising KMC and SWID officials has been formed to check depletion of groundwater and will report all discrepancies it notices to municipal commissioner Alapan Bandopadhyay. It has been decided that all existing deep tubewells within the KMC area would have to be registered with SWID in the next three months. KMC's water supply department will provide applicants free registration forms. That apart, any resident or cooperative housing society seeking a license for a deep tubewell must first obtain a no-objection-certificate (NOC) from SWID. KMC can issue licenses for installation of tubewells only on production of the NOCs. Moreover, all government and private institutes (academic, healthcare, administrative) using groundwater as a source of drinking water will remain under the scanner of the joint committee formed to monitor the extent of groundwater depletion in the city. According to sources in the KMC water supply department, there are about 2,500 deep tubewells in the city drawing 65 million gallons of water everyday. The KMC has its own network of providing groundwater to houses whose residents don't get filtered water. "Everyday, we draw 25 million gallons of water in areas where we can't supply filtered water," a KMC water supply department official said.
Civic officials are particularly worried over depletion of groundwater in the Central Business District (CBD), EM Bypass, Behala and Jadavpur. "Commercial buildings, academic institutions and even premier hospitals like SSKM use deep tubewells. We have directed them to apply for our filtered water supply," said KMC's member, mayor-in-council (water supply) Mrinal Mondal.
The exercise is aimed at minimising the use of groundwater which, KMC officials concede, is fast depleting in the city. One of the reasons for requiring existing deep tubewells to be registered with SWID is to determine the number of illegal connections in the city. "We have made registration mandatory within the next three months. After expiry of the deadline, we will undertake a special drive to trace illegal connections. If any individual, institute or members of a cooperative housing society fail to register with SWID, we will snap their water supply lines," a KMC water supply department official warned. "Given the large scale depletion of groundwater in and around the city, we have decided to restrict the use of such water. New licenses will be issued only where we fail to provide filtered water," Mondal said. Source:The Times Of India,15-09-07
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