Reportedly days after the northeast monsoon set in across Tamilnadu, Chennai Metrowater has decided to hike the price of water loads plied to the city and no public announcement was made in this regard, taking many consumers by surprise when they received a greater bill amount than usual. Accordingly a tanker with a capacity of 9,000 litres has gone from Rs 700 to Rs 735.
Furthermore a Chennai Metrowater official said that circulars to this effect have been issued to area engineers independently and no central direction has been given across the department. Further “This is a regular fortnightly price rise; it’s very marginal. They have not increased in between (the summer and now) and it is linked to petrol prices.”
Presently with the northeast monsoon setting in, the Cholavaram and Chembarambakkam reservoirs, which went bone-dry during the summer months, were replenished with the rains earlier this week. Perhaps in addition to this, Andhra Pradesh released water from a brimming krishna river on September 25 under the Telugu ganga project, which reached Poondi reservoir by September 30.
