29-Mar-2024  Srinagar booked.net

Kashmir

Central Kashmir’s Chadoora, Kangan Face Water Crisis

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Srinagar: Drinking water crises have been reported in central Kashmir's Chadoora and Kangan areas with residents accusing the Jal Shakti (water) department of ignoring the pleas. 

While residents of the Chadoora area in Budgam district accused the Jal Shakti (water) department of supplying contaminated drinking water, there is an acute shortage of drinking water in the Kangan area of the Ganderbal district for the last two days.

“There are high chances of an outbreak of water-borne diseases in the village due to the contaminated water,” Jalal-U-Din, a resident of Chadoora said.

He said the village has been consuming unfiltered water for many years and that the Jal Shakti department has failed to find out a solution.

The locals said the village has a filtration facility which is not being used. They said they had taken the matter to the department many times but to no avail.

The residents have appealed to the district administration Budgam to look into the matter and resolve it at the earliest.

Moreover, locals of Kangan said they are facing immense hardships due to the acute shortage of water supply for the last two days, there is no drinking water at all.

“For the last two days, we have been fetching water from streams, which is muddy and unsafe. This is how we have started Ramadan. We fear our children may fall sick,” Showkat Ahmad, a Kangan resident said.

Meanwhile, XEN Public Health Engineering (PHE) Nazia Nazir said that the filtered water will be supplied to the village from next Tuesday in Chadoora and an official from the Jal Shakti department in Kangan ‘assured’ that the issue will be redressed ‘within the shortest possible time.’

(KNO)