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Power crisis hits water supply
Tribune News Service

Rajouri, January 5
Residents in this border township seem to be facing a hard time. With no respite from the ongoing cold wave, now it is the erratic water supply, which is creating problems for them.

Due to erratic power supply, water supply has also been badly affected in this frontier township.

Residents allege that in most of the areas, including the old city and DC Colony, water was being supplied after three days.

They said owing to water shortage they had to queue up for hours together to get water from hand pumps. Some of the residents complained that they had to get water from the Rajouri nullah.

“For the last two days, the Water Supply Department has not supplied water. I called their office to know the reason and they replied that erratic power supply has affected the water supply,” said Imran Lone, a resident of ward number 10, who had to wait in a queue for an hour to fill a bucket of water.

Shagufta Begum, a resident of ward number two of DC Colony, while expressing her ire against the department said the department supplied water after three days.

“Since there is no water supply for the last two days, we are facing hardships. I hope the water supply is regularised and we are not made to suffer further,” she added.

Meanwhile, superintendent engineer (SE), Hydraulic circle, Ashok Kumar Gupta admitted that the water supply had been affected. “Water supply has been affected due to erratic power supply,” he said.