Addressing Drinking Water Crisis- Thumbe Dam Review

With the temperatures recording all time high and drought like situation in most part of the country it becomes increasingly important to be prudent about the resources and plan supply that can contain the resource and its usage in prudent manner.

The Visit to the Thumbe Dam along with Shri. J.R. Lobo (MLA Mangalore City South ) is important as it will get the corporation and the officials plan and gear up to ensure #Drinkingwater supply to the regions that are primarily dependent from the dam. On a normal day 160 MLD (million litres a day) of water is being pumped to the city from Thumbe dam. of which 40 MLD is consumed by the industries. As a measure water supply to the industries would be marginalized and water for drinking would be prioritized., as a standby measure 60 water tankers have been inducted to supply water to surrounding areas where there is scarcity of water.

With the existing storage expected to last for only 10 days. The decision post review meeting was to lift water from other sources such as Wells an tanks. Overall it’s a collective effort and the MLA has the approval from the State Urban Development Ministry to exercise veto power to take emergency decisions in case of urgency relating to water supply. It included taking decisions on drilling borewells or energising the existing ones.

Gramoday Se Bharat Uday - Launched in Udupi.

 It is important to give more publicity to the programmes formulated for the welfare of people in rural areas.

For success of any such initiative is in giving more publicity to the programmes formulated by the government for the welfare of people in rural areas. Many a time people in the rural areas were unaware of the projects and schemes which were targeted at them.

A large number of people in the State and the country still lived in the rural areas. It was essential that the administrative machinery reached them and listened to their problems and solved them. It was also necessary to create confidence among the farmers with the regard to their future in agriculture. To make the government programmes easily understandable, street plays, folk songs, legal awareness camps and sports programmes would be conducted during the Gramoday campaign.

The campaign would also make use of Gram Sabhas, Mahila Gram Sabhas, children’s Gram Sabhas and health camps to disseminate information.