We are in the middle of the hot summer season and the PWD has begun cutting down on water supply to Siolim and to many other parts of the state.
What is the exact status of the water level in dams? Should PWD press the panicky button so early. If every year we are facing the same problem then the PWD and WRD should take up water harvesting projects on a war footing and the TCP/panchayats should see that no projects are approved without a water harvesting plan put in place by the project holders/builders.
Despite all this the TCP and government continue to allow real estate sharks to build projects. PWD wants to replace the pipelines for some commission at the cost of exchequer.
The government and PWD put advertisements on newspaper to ‘Save water’ while they neglect on their duty to plug the pipeline leakages in time.
For the last three days I have seen water overflowing into the just dug drains for the renovation work down the slope of St. Xavier’s college Mapusa. This water is wasted and worse, it happens in front of the PWD officials who live in the government colony and pumping station. No one seems to be bothered. I hope the chief Engineer/ PWD minister will book these officials for negligence.
Gregory E. D’souza , Siolim
