DC asks local bodies to keep plans ready to manage drinking water crisis in summer

Deputy Commissioner H. V. Darshan connected Thursday directed section bodies to support their plans acceptable to negociate drinking h2o crisis, if any, during the summertime successful Dakshina Kannada.

Presiding implicit the District Disaster Management Authority gathering connected broad drinking h2o management, the Deputy Commissioner said that the section bodies should guarantee that radical bash not look dearth of drinking water. He asked the bodies to place the h2o sources which tin beryllium tapped during crisis.

Mr. Darshan said that tankers should beryllium utilized to proviso h2o lone if necessary. Local bodies should usage the funds disposable with them to proviso h2o successful summer.

Mangaluru City Corporation officials told the gathering that arsenic per the contiguous estimation based connected the retention of h2o successful Thumbe vented dam, from wherever drinking h2o is supplied to the city, Mangaluru whitethorn not look dearth of drinking h2o this summer. They said that 7 jack wells of assorted departments and industries are drafting h2o from Thumbe dam.

The Deputy Commissioner expressed his dissatisfaction implicit officials of the Rural Drinking Water Supply Department who did not supply capable accusation successful the meeting.