THANE: The Thane municipal corporation will rejuvenate old wells and use them as an alternate source of water supply to the parched city in the coming days, municipal commissioner Abhijit Bangar informed, Monday.
The initiative to tap the age-old source of water is seen as a desperate stop-gap arrangement to cater to the increasing needs and reducing dependency on municipal water in the chief minister’s city where several localities still continue to get inadequate water supply.
The proposal was floated by Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik before chief minister Eknath Shinde who approved the same following which the state will finance Rs 50 cr for the project that will filter the water and make it usable for neighbouring localities, Bangar said.
