Media News - Veeranam project likely to be completed by May next

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The Hindu

Online edition of India's National Newspaper

Thursday, Aug 21, 2003

 

Veeranam project likely to be completed by May next

 

By Our Special Correspondent

 

CHENNAI AUG. 20. The Veeranam project, aimed at providing 180

million litres a day (MLD) to Chennai, is likely to be completed by

May next year, according to Chennai Metrowater, the agency

responsible for implementation of the scheme.

 

Describing the Veeranam lake as one of the important water sources

for the city, the agency's Engineering Director, R.N. Suryanarayana

Singh, told a conference on water conservation and management here

that this project, along with other schemes including the Krishna

water supply project and proposed desalination plants of 300 MLD,

would help in meeting the norm of 135 litres per capita per day.

 

Stating that absence of perennial source was the cause for the

city's water scarcity, he said in times of drought, groundwater

contributed substantially in sustaining the supply and now, it

accounted for 100 million litres of the total supply of 200 million

litres provided on alternate days.

 

A. Ramakrishna, president and deputy managing director of Larsen &

Toubro, which has been carrying out repair works in the Andhra

Pradesh stretch of the Kandaleru-Poondi Canal with the financial

assistance of Sathya Sai Central Trust, said the work would be

completed in two weeks. The Kandaleru dam had been strengthened.

After the improvement of the canal, more water would reach the city.

 

Inaugurating the conference organised by the Confederation of Indian

Industry (southern region), the Local Administration Minister, M.C.

Sampath, said 52 blocks had been classified as over-exploited and 37

blocks - dark. So, rainwater harvesting was the only way by which

groundwater resources got replenished.

 

Shobhnath, Regional Director of the Central Ground Water Board, said

different segments - governmental agencies, NGOs and the public -

had a role to perform in protecting the groundwater resources.

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