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Acute Water Shortage Grips Gwalior
The activists of the youth wing of the opposition Congress party in the state staged a protest in the city holding empty earthen water pitchers and demanded supply of safe drinking water.
The shortage of water during the summer months is a perennial problem in several regions of Madhya Pradesh with the rapidly falling water table and growing population adding to the state's water woes.
"There is immense water scarcity and we are facing a lot of problems. We need water after every two to three days but find it hard to get it. This even leads to clashes and fights among us. If a tanker comes regularly, then there won't be so much problem," said Bhagwandas Gupta, a resident.
But local authorities responsible for supplying potable water are extremely hard pressed due to resource constraint.
"For the past eight days, I am coming here at 10 a.m. and leave by 11 p.m. I am sending a tanker and doing every possible thing but still the arrangement is just not fine here. Officials do call me regularly but what can I do? I have only two tankers and they want water equivalent to 40 tankers," lamented Ved Prakash Pal, an employee of Public Health Engineering Department.
A steep fall in the ground water level has been reported in a number of wells. Authorities rule out possibility of new tube wells.
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