The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has taken up a comprehensive water augmentation scheme to achieve supply of 100 per cent filtered water to Kolkatans. The idea is to ensure that by next one year the civic body is enabled to reach filtered water in every nook and corner of the city. Currently, residents in large areas depend on ground water as source of drinking water. Mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday announced that Rs 406 crore will be spent in production of filtered water and laying water pipelines to reach the same to households which now are dependent on ground water. Hakim was presenting the KMC budget for 2019—2020 financial year. Over dependence on ground water in different parts of the city has often led to outbreak of enteric diseases. Besides, over withdrawal of ground water leads to depletion and it may further lead to arsenic contamination in ground water. The KMC authorities were asked to make a blueprint to provide filtered water to residents living in ‘ground water’ zones after chief minister Mamata Banerjee asked Hakim to adopt extensive projects to provide safe drinking water to Kolkata residents. It is learnt that Banerjee had particularly pointed out the plight of residents of Tollygunge—Jadavpur belt and also wanted the civic body to focus on large areas located off Eastern Metropolitan Bypass

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