The Kerala Water Authority (KWA) will examine the quality of drinking water in the houses of people who have returned from relief camps in the flood-hit districts.
The service, which would cover water in wells and other sources, would be provided free of cost, Water Resources Minister K. Krishnankutty said on Monday.
The KWA has so far distributed 1.75 lakh litres of potable water to around 1,600 camps over the past two days.
An additional 13,000 litres of water was provided through tankers.
Many schemes hit
As many as 236 water supply schemes of the KWA had been affected by monsoon-related incidents. Also, 3.64 lakh water connections were affected, disrupting supply to 21.52 lakh consumers.
Majority of the schemes had to be temporarily shut down due to flooding and silt accumulation.
Sixty-one schemes were hit by power failure.
Forty-two of the 54 substation of the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) that were damaged in the floods are back on track. Steps are on to repair the remaining sub-stations.
Over a lakh volunteers
More than one lakh people had registered as volunteers for flood-relief work through the Kerala Rescue portal, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Monday. Of this, 415 were doctors.
The government expected the number to go up further in the days ahead, he said, adding that the high number of registrations was encouraging.
At a high-level meeting here, he instructed government departments to be vigilant although the rain had abated.
The Chief Minister also underscored the need to conduct sanitation campaigns in the affected districts. Special attention should be paid for cleaning schools which were flooded or doubled up as relief camps, he said. Till Monday evening, 15,000 houses, 920 commercial establishments and 64 public buildings had been cleaned. Around 2,960 wells were chlorinated.
More than 3,000 trained Kudumbashree volunteers will undertake electrical and plumbing works in the flood-hit homes in the affected districts. On Monday, the Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation supplied food consignments worth ₹7.38 crore to relief camps.
The carcasses of 866 animals killed in the flooding and landslides have been disposed off.
