Experts Urge PMC To Take Steps In Time Of Plenty Bid goodbye to water cuts, at least till next monsoon, as four dams supplying water to the city are overflowing. Also, dams in the region, including Ujani the biggest reservoir in western Maharashtra, are full to the brim.However, experts said, the euphoria over good […]
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Five MLD will be directed through a pipeline towards district Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to share water with Alandi Municipal Council from the Bhama Askhed dam project. The civic body decided to provide five million litres per day (MLD) unfiltered water through the main pipeline.VG Kulkarni, chief superintendent of PMC’s water supply department,
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To ensure effective construction of individual toilets for nearly 11,000 households in Pimpri Chinchwad under the Swacch Bharat initiative, the civic body has decided to follow the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) model. As per the model, the beneficiaries get funds only after a third party agency inspects the work. The third party agencies will get
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मंगळवारी रात्री दहा वाजल्यानंतर आज (बुधवार) सकाळी सहा वाजेपर्यंत धरण परिसरात मुसळधार पाऊस झाला असून, धऱणपातळीत मोठी वाढ झाली आहे. खडकवासला धरण 99 टक्के भरले असून, मुठा नदीत पाणी सोडण्यास सुरवात झाली आहे. त्यामुळे, धरणातून दुपारी 12 वाजता सुमारे 18,491 क्‍युसेकने पाणी सोडण्याचा निर्णय खडकवासला पाटबंधारे विभागाने घेतला आहे. सकाळी दहा वाजता पाच दरवाजे एक
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10,000 Cusecs Released From Nearly Full Khadakwasla There is a fight brewing over water discharge from Khadakwasla reservoir into the Mutha river.Political leaders from the opposition parties, seeking relief from the alternate day supply for the city which has been making do with less water for several months now, want the water to be utilized
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The total capacity of the four dams Khadakwasla, Panshet, Varasgaon and Temhgar was 29 TMC while 11 TMC of water has been stored in the dams so far. WHILE TILL a week ago, the city witnessed a spat between Mayor Prashant Jagtap and District Guardian Minister Girish Bapat over the release of water from Khadakwasla
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By and large, citizens who stayed away from wasting water while celebrating Holi with `gulal’ on Thursday said it still felt like a festival of colours and a sense of achievement ran through societies that had put up notices urging conservation. Yet, the festive mood prevailed with families, friends and communities. “I enjoyed myself as
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Echelon Cooperative Housing Society on BanerPashan Link Road gets its water from a tanker supplier who has doubled the charges at the start of summer. The 50-flat society is dependent completely on four tankers for its daily needs, but its members are trying to negotiate a better deal with the supplier while looking at ways
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The water situation is turning grimmer, but there is no talk of additional cuts to de al with a crisis if the monsoon is delayed yet again, this year. Water stocks in the dams reservoirs will suffice till July 15, but another bad monsoon year will mean serious trouble for the city . Pune Municipal
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With chances of acute water short age and inevitable water cuts this summer, the civic administra tion claims that it does not use drinking water for the construction of cement concrete (CC) roads. However, the water department claims quite the opposite. It is unsure of where the drinking water tankers go at the end of
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