Tarun Vijay seeks better water supply for Andaman residents
May 18th, 2012 - 11:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of parliament Tarun Vijay Friday said that the residents of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands were facing a shortage of drinking water and demanded construction of a reservoir and a desalination plant to meet the people’s needs.
Raising the issue through a special mention in the Rajya Sabha, Vijay said people in the islands get between 20 to 30 minutes’ drinking water supply in a week during summer.
He said the only existing reservoir at Dhanikhari fails to meet the demand of potable water and sought construction of an estuarine reservoir at Flat Bay.
He said that while the British administration had a desalination plant to convert sea water into drinking water, no such plant had been constructed after Independence.
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