With a long summer ahead and the yield from the city’s main water sources dwindling, the Tiruchi City Corporation is gearing to meet the requirements over the next three or four months by sinking six additional deep borewells on the Cauvery river bed.
Deep borewells are being sunk around the Kambarasampettai head works, one of the city’s main drinking water sources. The borewells are expected to yield about 10-12 million litres per day (MLD) and help the civic body tide over the current shortfall.
According to official sources, the Corporation had been supplying about 156-160 MLD in recent months and the yield from its water sources in the Cauvery and the Kollidam has fallen by more than 10 MLD. The yield from the Collector Well has been affected because of mud slide and restoration efforts were on, the sources indicated.
