On major drive to install water meters, PMC fails to regulate usage in its establishments

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is enforcing water meters on citizens while failing to regulate water usage in its own establishments, with currently only two centres having the smart card-based 'automatic water refilling system' that was first introduced by the civic body at the Yerawada water tanker refilling station/centre 16 years ago in 2009.

- Siddharth Gadkari

PUNE:

The remaining water tanker refilling centres continue to waste lakhs of litres of water due to overflow which is also damaging the roads and creating potholes in them.

This, as residents of areas such as Keshav Nagar, Sade Satra Nali, Manjari Budruk and Shewalewadi continue to grapple with severe water shortage.

Most housing societies in the newly-merged villages on the outskirts are supplied water through PMC-appointed contractors' water tankers.

While there are seven major refilling stations/centres across the city, the PMC has been able to install the 'automatic water refilling system' at just two (Ramwadi and Wadgaon Sheri) out of the seven refilling stations in the last 16 years.