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A leak quenches thirst of 5,000 people here [1]

Had the Gujarat State Water Supply and Sewerage Board (GSWSSB) repaired this leak, some 5,000 people in Surendranagar would have been going thirsty. Living on the outskirts of the town, it is a routine for women of this middle-class locality of Khann to spend hours standing by the leaking pipeline. And fights are common too. The pipeline supplies water from Dholi Dhaja dam to surrounding villages. If there was no leak, people here would have had to drink extremely brackish water from hand pumps.

Publication Date: 
22/04/2008
Times Of India (Ahmedabad) [2]
Tags:
Urban Water Supply [3], Drinking Water Scarcity [4], Gujarat [5], Surendranagar (D) [6]
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