29-04-2025
‘Complaints going unheard': Water crisis in Gurgaon's Sectors 40, 57; residents hire tankers by the dozen
As temperatures soared, tankers are becoming the order of the day across Gurgaon's Sector 57, as there has been no water supply for five days now.
The arrangement is costing the Residents' Welfare Association (RWA) up to Rs 1,500 per tanker. Around 40-50 tankers have been coming each day to cater to over 4,000 homes in the area since the issue arose.
'For days now, the Municipal Corporation has not been able to supply any water. We have sent many representations, went to meet the Deputy Commissioner, the Municipal Commissioner too, but to no avail,' said RWA president Roshan Lal Yadav.
As an exigency, the RWA is having to use submersible pumps, with its tube wells largely having dried up. 'The fault partly lies with the boosting station at Sector 51 not working optimally, which is affecting us. But we are still meeting people daily in the hope of a solution,' said Yadav.
Sector 40 is also facing a water crisis. Here, the issue is of leaks in mains pipes laid along the roads.
'Since May 12, there have been significant leaks in the mains pipes that we have already complained about. No repair work or tender has been allocated. The officials we have interacted with make it seem like we are demanding a special request… The leaks are affecting water pressure and supply,' said Abhimanyu Yadav, RWA president.
The leaks are not the kind that a private plumber can fix, he stressed. 'It is the civic body that has to fix this. There is no awareness among them of how water wastage is affecting us. They cannot disconnect it either.'
Tired of complaining, he pointed out that just two days ago, their area's pump booster (for water) burnt up again. 'For the last several years, it keeps burning every two weeks… we have raised this,' he said.
Both RWA presidents met the civic body's officials collectively, as well as along with other RWAs, but there was no change to their society's woes.
