: The issue of water scarcity in some areas of the city figured in the general body meeting of Udupi City Municipal Council here on Saturday.
Raising the issue, Vasanthi Shetty, councillor, said the migrant workers colony in the Ambalpady ward had not been receiving water for the last few days. Even when water came, it was at odd hours and at low pressure. She had brought this matter to the notice of the CMC engineers earlier, but no action was taken, she said.
Intervening, Meenakshi Bannanje, CMC president, said she had visited the colony. Ganesh, Assistant Engineer, said water supply got disrupted due to work on widening the National Highway. The CMC is installing a pipeline to improve water supply, he said.
S.P. Kudwa, councillor, said some houses in the Old Post Office road had not got water supply for the last five days. Ms. Bannanje said action would be taken in the matter.
P. Yuvaraj, councillor, said the CMC should rope in the services of youth organizations with the help of local councillors in all the wards and launch an awareness campaign on the limited use of water.
Janardhan Bhandarkar, councillor, said the CMC should cut off water supply to those houses where water was being used for gardening and washing vehicles.
The meeting was informed that the CMC would take up waste segregation at source in the city in phases. There were 8,000 flats, 20,900 houses, 590 hotels and commercial establishments and 6,000 shops in the city.
All of them would be directed to follow the waste segregation at source. They would have to divide the garbage into wet waste, dry waste and hazardous waste, which would then be collected and transported to the Solid Waste Treatment Plant. The CMC bylaw for collecting fines against reckless disposal of waste too would be strengthened.
