No water connection,civic body can’t shift project-hit to new flats

The BMC’s hydraulic engineer Vinay Deshpande said owing to the water crisis,supplying water to additional 4,500 families was not possible for now. “We are aware of the importance and urgency of the BRIMSTOWAD project but where do we get the additional water from? We have made it clear that no new MHADA or SRA flats will be given water connections till August 2010,provided that it rains sufficiently,” said Deshpande.

While there is a 15 per cent water cut on domestic users in the city at present,the BMC has also cut supply to upcoming constructions,swimming pools etc. It has also decreased the per capita quota of water from 90 litres per person a day to 45 litres.

The project that was first approved in 1993 involves building pumping stations to prevent flooding during monsoon. The project will displace about 15,000 hutments that have encroached upon the existing drains which need to desilted,deepened,widened and fortified with a retention wall.