SHILLONG: Residents of Keating Road, Malki, Laitumkhrah and Lachuamiere areas in Shillong are facing drinking water crisis because a 12-inch-diameter feeder pipe of the British-era reservoir that can hold 50,000 litres of water was damaged when it rained incessantly in the city recently.

Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh, after inspecting the reservoir, said her department was taking eme