Water crisis hits Sangrur village

Sangrur, April 28

This year too, 3,000 residents of Bhullan village, located on Punjab-Haryana border, will have to fetch water from the Bhakra canal to meet their daily needs.

The groundwater is unfit for drinking and the authorities have failed to start the canal-based water supply project.

But this year, the spread of Covid has added to their worries as they fear untreated canal water may spread the virus.

The village is under Moonak sub-division. The water of all hand pumps and both tubewells installed in village is unfit. Most residents say their repeated pleas have fallen on deaf ears.

“We do not have any facility even to treat the canal water. We are directly using it while the groundwater of our village is highly polluted,” said Suresh Kumar, sarpanch.

Lehra MLA and ex-Finance Minister Parminder Dhindsa said he had been writing repeatedly to the Water Supply Department to start the canal water supply project.

Executive Engineer of the department Gurwinder Singh said: “We have written to the Irrigation Department for permission to start water supply from the canal to the village.” — TNS