Residents face severe drinking water shortage

Tandur:Tribals of Athakur thanda in Peddemul mandal of Vikarabad district have been facing acute drinking water crisis. The residents of the thanda have been spending sleepless nights to get a pitcher of water.

Representations have been made to officials and elected people’s representatives several times urging them to tide over the drinking water crisis, but there is no positive response, lament the thanda residents.

According to a resident of the thanda Hemla Naik, the onset of summer will bring drinking water woes close to its heels. The water level in the one and only bore well has receded farther and father. There is no one to solve their problems.

According to another resident Kamlee Bai, to catch a pitcher full of water it takes at least half an hour. She said that she did not know when her turn in the queue would turn up. The shortage is so acute that the thanda residents are not able to give a glass of water to visitors to their homes. Sometimes, the children are being sent to school without their daily ablutions.

Another resident Roop Singh said that there was no problem in getting two square meals a day. But, he said he was witness to drinking water problems in the thanda. To fill a one pitcher with bore well water, it takes at least half an hour. The water level receded farther and farther.

The thanda residents have been appealing to the Rural water supply department officials to quench their thirst by supplying drinking water to their canteens.