20 Jun 2018 | 06:48am IST
Curdi sore over lack of drinking water despite giving land for dam
SANGUEM: The Curdi villagers who have sacrificed their ancestral lands for the construction of Selaulim Dam are sore over the drinking water problem faced by them and have urged the authorities to come up with a concrete solution to solve the drinking water problem faced by them at the earliest.
Team Herald
SANGUEM: The Curdi villagers who have sacrificed their ancestral lands for the construction of Selaulim Dam are sore over the drinking water problem faced by them and have urged the authorities to come up with a concrete solution to solve the drinking water problem faced by them at the earliest.
Irked with the problem of drinking water supply, the villagers led by Manuel Barreto and accompanied by ex-panchayat member Francisco Costa, Rudolfo Estibeiro, Peter Rodrigues and Mauricio Dias visited the office of water supply department at Sanguem and made the officials aware of the water supply problems faced by the villagers.
Barreto informed the officials that though water from Selaulim Dam stands supplied to the whole of South Goa, the villagers of Curdi who sacrificed their lands for Selaulim Dam are yet to be provided with 24 hours drinking water even after forty years of their displacement.
Barretto claimed that at the time of construction of Selaulim Dam, the government had assured to fulfill all the demands of the villagers including regular water supply. However, successive governments have failed to solve the problems faced by Selaulim evacuees.
Barretto has urged the government to come up with a specific solution to the drinking water problem faced by the Selaulim evacuees at Curdi Wadem as it has reportedly planned to do away with the proposed 5MLD project at Wadem and instead have the water supply to the village from JICA scheme.
