Water Crisis in Gurgaon ends

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The Water crisis in Gurgaon ended on Wednesday as the “normal water supply” was restored in all parts of the city.

About one third of the population which was fed by tube wells was getting normal water supply during the crisis also but on Wednesday the remaining two third populations also got tap water after four days, according to Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Gupta.

He said that the residents of Gurgaon should learn a lesson from this small water crisis and everyone “should learn that water is precious”.

“The small crisis shook the city but what happens if the crisis aggravates due to overexploitation of underground water and misuse continues,” he said and appealed the people not to waste water and each individual should contribute for recharging the underground water by adopting water harvesting system and work for water conservation.

Gupta said presently there was over exploitation of water resources. Giving the figures from the hydrology Department, the Deputy Commissioner said that during October 2007, the water table in Gurgaon block was at 24.98 meters, in Farrukhnagar block it was 15.96 meters while in Patoudi block the water table was at 25.90 meter and in Sohna block it was 20.19 meters.

“If we see the data of October 2003, in Gurgaon block the water table was at 18.08 meters, in Farrukhnagar it was 12.23 meters, in Patoudi it was 21.92 meters and in Sohna 15.84 meters. On comparing these figures, one can easily make out that the water table declined by about 7 meters in Gurgaon block where as by about 5 meters in Sohna block,” he said. Gupta said that this shows that the rate of decline in water table was more in Gurgaon and Sohna blocks where real estate activities were more during the last four years.

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