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500 villagers in Odisha’s Puri forced to drink contaminated well water
Nearly 500 residents of Nua Kaliakan village in Puri district depend on a single old open well for drinking water, with piped supply absent and groundwater unfit for use. Villagers queue daily…
The Story in Brief
Nearly 500 residents of Nua Kaliakan village in Puri district depend on a single old open well for drinking water, with piped supply absent and groundwater unfit for use. Villagers queue daily for hours to collect muddy, algae-laden water, which they must filter and boil, reports odishatv.in. The same contaminated well is used to cook meals at the local Anganwadi centre, leading to infections. The RWSS Department says a mega drinking water project will supply the village within a year, and urges residents to use a tube well instead.
The Indian Opinion
Ten years of promises and one contaminated well feeding 500 people is not a water crisis, it is a governance failure dressed up as a project timeline. Officials point to a mega supply scheme due next year, but meanwhile the same well serves an Anganwadi kitchen, and children fall sick. The real test will be whether the tube well the assistant engineer cited actually gets repaired this week, not next year.
Source: odishatv.in
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