Panjim: During the summer, it is natural that the supply of water to citizens gets interrupted for various reasons but it is unfortunate that residents in the state’s capital are facing an ongoing water crisis for more than a week now. In a bid to get this rectified, citizens of the St Inez area knocked at the doors of the Public Works Department office in the vicinity but were met with a lackadaisical response from them. “We have been complaining to the PWD authorities in St Inez but none of them are taking the issue seriously. For the past eight days, residents of our building have been suffering as the water won’t reach more than the second floor,” said one of the dwellers of the government quarters at St Inez.
The executive engineer, Deelip Dhawlikar has said that the department is trying their best to sort out the water availability problem. Locals who lodged complaints regarding water availability informed them that there is a problem with the pipes which were installed decades ago. They claim to have been complaining about the same for the past nine months.
An inquiry lodged at the PWD office revealed that the PWD supervisor who is the concerned designated officer of the area is on vacation for the past fortnight. Furthermore, the material required by the execution wing to repair or replace the pipeline has not been supplied. Hence, the work cannot be carried out to ease the burden of people residing in more than 30 flats around the PWD office in St Inez.
“The pressure of the water is such that it only reaches the first and second floor and we are forced to fill water by carrying buckets from the ground floor,” one of the residents said.
