Drinking water comes in dribs and drabs at coastal villages near Vedaranyam

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A schoolboy returning connected  a bicycle with integrative  pots aft  fetching drinking h2o  successful  Thennadar panchayat adjacent   Vedaranyam connected  Saturday.

A schoolboy returning connected a bicycle with integrative pots aft fetching drinking h2o successful Thennadar panchayat adjacent Vedaranyam connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Residents of respective coastal villages successful the Vedaranyam portion of Nagapattinam territory person urged the authorities to instrumentality urgent measures to code the worsening drinking h2o crisis, which they accidental has near hundreds of families struggling for adjacent basal needs.

In Thennadar panchayat, a coastal colony with much than 500 families, residents said drinking h2o had not been supplied regularly for weeks. “Water proviso comes erstwhile successful 10 days, and sometimes not adjacent that. There person been stretches of 15 days to astir a period erstwhile nary h2o is supplied astatine all. We bash not adjacent person h2o to bathe,” said Nagarathinam V., a resident.

Published - March 08, 2026 08:22 p.m. IST

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