Water cut to start tomorrow

With water storage down in dams,Pune will face 50 per cent water cuts from Thursday. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has declared that areas where water is provided by Parvati,SNDT and Warje water pumping stations will get water once a day starting Thursday. Areas where water is supplied by Wadgaon and Lashkar-cantonment pumping stations already getting water only once a day.

The areas that will receive water only in the evening from Thursday,instead of the usual four hours in the morning and two to three hours in the evening are: Parvati pumping station: All peths in the city,Dattawadi,Rajendra Nagar,Lokmanya Nagar,Deccan Gymkhana,Shivajinagar area,Swargate,Parvati darshan,Mukund Nagar,Parvati gaon,Sahakar Nagar 1 and 2,Satara road,Padmavati,Bibvewadi,Taljai,Katraj,Dhankawdi,Indira Nagar,Karve Road,Karve Nagar and Law College Road.

SNDT water supply station: SNDT area,Erandawane,Paud Road,Shatri Nagar,entire Kothrud area,Dahanukar Colony,Paramhans Nagar, Model Colony,Bhosale Nagar,Aundh,Bopodi,University area.

Warje pumping station: Warje,Gokhale Nagar,Gandhi Bhavan,Bhosari Colony,Bavdhan,Sus,Pashan,Khadki.

The cut is likely to continue till monsoon,said V G Kulkarni,PMC water supply department superintendent on Tuesday. According to Kulkarni,Pune had 14.78 TMC water in the dams on February 28 last year. This year,the water available in dams on the same day is only 11.70 TMC.