Guwahati: The Guwahati Municipal Corporationhis (GMC) Satpukhuri Water Supply Plant will suspend distribution for two days starting Tuesday, affecting 16 localities due to essential restoration work at the plant’s intake point.
The outage will affect around 15,000 households receiving water from the scheme, which processes 22.5 million liters of water daily.
The affected localities include Uzanbazar, Guwahati Club, Silpukhuri, Chandmari, Govt. Press Area, Kharghuli, Housing Colony, Krishnanagar, Nizarapar, Kanwachal, Nabagiri, Pensionpara, Milanpur, Nabagraha Area, Udaigiri Hill Area and Chitrachal.
On Monday, the deputy executive director of the water works department of the GMC released a statement saying, “It is for general information to the consumers of Satpukhuri water supply scheme of Guwahati Municipal Corporation that the supply will be interrupted for two days, 12 and November 13, due to a malfunction. of the transformer at the intake point of the Satpukhuri water supply scheme”.
The municipal corporation serves more than 33,000 consumers through three water treatment plants in the city. The Satpukhuri plant, established in 1930 and upgraded in 1984, operates alongside the Panbazar plant (commissioned in 1963) and the Kamakhya plant (commissioned in 1992).
Notably, about 70% of the city’s 3 lakh households rely on private water suppliers or wells. To address the old ones water shortagethe JICA-assisted South Central Guwahati water project with a capacity of 191 million liters began partial operations in December 2022, serving three of the city’s five constituencies.