Team Herald
SANGUEM: It is an irony that the very people who paved way for the construction of the Selaulim dam from where the drinking water is supplied to most parts of South Goa are facing water problems since the last three days and that too despite their houses being located barely a few metres away from the Selaulim backwaters.
Former deputy sarpanch of Wadem Kushta Gaonkar said that since the last three days, the taps have run dry at Colony No 1 but the authorities are taking the issue lightly.
Sources said that the village had plunged into darkness as the power supply was disconnected since Thursday evening after the heavy rains.
While the power supply was restored on Saturday, the villagers who are supplied drinking water from the nearby pump house failed to get a even a drop till Sunday morning.
A department employee Sunil Gaonkar working at the Pump House said that the water supply in the village would be restored by evening today.
Meanwhile sources informed that there was a showdown between the employees and villagers yesterday evening at the pump house in the village over the failure of the department to restore the water supply.
“Drinking water supply in the village is an annual affair. The Water Supply Department is taking Wadem villagers for a ride despite we having sacrificed our ancestral lands and houses for the Selaulim Dam,” said a villager Kusata Gaonkar.
Gaonkar also hit out at the MLA’s representing Sanguem constituency for failing to get a permanent solution to the water woes particularly at time when government talks of 24 hour water supply to the people living in Goa.
