No rain for 3 months, Gadag villagers drink polluted water from lake

The dearth of rainfall this year has left Timmapur villagers with no option but to drink unclean and slush-mixed water for the last three months.

- RAGHOTTAM KOPPAR @Gadag

The villagers rely on a single lake which is drying up.

The water from the parched lake now stinks and the last traces of water drawn by the villagers are mixed with mud and dirt.

Worried locals have demanded that the Gram Panchayat look into this problem on an urgent basis and provide a solution at the earliest. The fear of diseases is looming high as a few residents have been suffering from throat infections, fever and cough.