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With the Khadakwasla dam, the city’s main water source, getting polluted by sewage, the NCP has raised health concerns and urged the Pune Municipal Corporation to test the water before supplying it, as medicines were recently found to have been dumped on the dam’s premises.
Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who is the guardian minister for the district, has asked the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) to prevent the release of sewage into the dam.
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“The water in the Khadakwasla dam is getting polluted due to the release of sewage water from the properties developed alongside it. The dam is the main source of water for the city. So the PMC has to be very careful while supplying it to the 50 lakh population of the city. They should test the water before drawing and releasing it from the water treatment plant,” NCP leaders including Swapnil Khadke, Amol Pardeshi and Rohan Pawar wrote in a memorandum submitted to the corporation.
“The corporation has also found that the dam water is getting polluted mainly due to the release of sewage. “The PMC has informed the state water resource department, which owns the Khadakwasla dam,” said a civic officer.
Municipal Commissioner Vikram Kumar said the issue was taken up by Ajit Pawar. “The guardian minister has asked the PMRDA to prevent the release of sewage water into the dam. The metropolitan authority has been asked to conduct a survey alongside the dam and issue directions to commercial properties for setting up their own sewage treatment plants. The administration has been asked to prepare a detailed project report for setting up sewage treatment plants for villages alongside the dam,” he said.
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Pawar said on Friday that water would be released from the Khadakwasla dam for irrigation purposes on November 25. He directed the corporation to reduce water leakages and use water judiciously.
The district administration has also raised alarm over the decreased water availability due to reduced rainfall and rejected the corporation’s claim of increased water supply to the city.
The state water resource department has allocated 61 per cent of the total demand of 20.90 TMC for the year till the next monsoon. “We will again ask the state water resource department to reconsider our demand for water, given the increased population of the city and the expansion of city limits,” said the municipal commissioner.
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