Coimbatore Corporation will soon do a stock taking of public taps in the city.
According to senior officials, the exercise of identifying the non-revenue water outlets was to know how much of potable and ground water it distributed to the public, the number of public taps and their location.
Objective
They said that the objective of the exercise was to know how much water the Corporation supplied to the residents, their sources, the cost involved, and the number of people who benefitted, because it did not have any such statistics on hand.
The corporation supplied both potable water and ground water to residents in almost all the 100 wards but in only those areas where the concentration of people dependent on such water was high. Those were invariably slums or with people from the low income group.
In the old city (60 wards), the corporation supplied potable and ground water through two different pipelines but in the added areas it supplied only through the common pipeline available.
The senior officials said that the study was necessary because the corporation was soon going in for the 24x7 drinking water supply scheme in added areas, where all connections would be metered.
Water supply managers on the ground said that they were yet to start the work, though.
