Goemkarponn desk
CURCHOREM: With no water supply for past five days due to pipeline breakdown and the Public Works Department officials not moving an inch to repair the same, the youth of Sirvoi, Quepem, near Someshwar temple has taken the responsibility to the repair the damage.
The official and the locals say the problem is recurring due to old cement pipeline, which was laid in 1990.
Ashish Gaonkar a local said that this has become a huge issue as the problem recurs every other day.
“It is become very difficult to repair or maintain the pipeline because it is cement pipeline and after 32 years it become soft and outdated,” he said.
Lukman Sheikh another local said “from last 4 to 5 days we have shortage of water. After complains about damaged water pipelines. water supply department workers came and repair it but very next day again water pipeline was burst and now no proper water supply from last 5 days,” he said.
In the past years this village has always had water issue in this area due low pressure but after new water pumps put in various places, this issue was sorted but now the problem is of old water pipeline, he added.
Chetan Haldankar, ex-vice chairperson and present councilor of Quepem municipality said that the water shortage has become a routine issue now.
“I reside in the same area, and facing same problem due to this old and very outdated damaged pipelines. I am not blaming PWD water supply department workers, wh
o do their job according to the situations but due to old water pipeline, it damaged again and again,” he said.He said they have already complained about the situation and asked PWD to c
hange old cement water pipeline which is connected to more then thousand people.
Haldankar added that despite complains no action has been initiated to change the old pipelines,
“For example yesterday the damaged pipelines was repaired by PWD but next day again pipeline was damaged, when locals complained about repaired work they said there was shortage of labour, we cannot send them today, later local youth himself pulled their socks and started repaired work,” he said.
