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With depletion of forest cover, water scarcity looms large in Manipur
Eastern Mirror | Sobhapati Samom | Imphal, October 16
Hillson Ws, who runs a shop in Ukhrul town, used to buy 1000 litres of water every week at Rs 800 during dry seasons from November-March. Thus, his five-member family in the hill town, which is located about 80 km northeast of Manipur’s state capital-Imphal, will roughly spent around Rs 100 daily if they buy 4000 litres of water every month. Thus, his annual budget only on water could be somewhere not less than Rs 20,000 if the family continues to buy water for the whole year minus rainy season (say about five months). In one way this is a huge amount for a family in a poor state like Manipur.
Similarly thousands of residents in Imphal also buy water from private suppliers even as the state run water supply agency- Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) aims to provide at least 135 litres of water for an individual living in urban area and 40 litres per capita per day in rural areas.
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