Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, February 06 2009:
Some unknown persons have dropped wasted oil into the water reservoir at the Akampat Water Supply scheme causing woes to the people of the area as the water could not be use for drinking purpose.
The wasted oil was dropped into the reservoir by the unknowns on the night of January 27 last and since then people stopped collecting water from the scheme.
The incident is not the first of its kind as it has been done two times in the year back.
Apart from this, some times back, there had an instant of burning down the water pump by some unknown persons.
As disclosed by the locals, the water supply scheme run by the state public health engineering department was commissioned in April 1997 and since then the scheme is supply safe drinking water at Singjamei Kshetri Leikai, Khongman and Akampat etc.
People while strongly criticizing the act of the unknown persons terming it as an act of uncivilized and thoughtless people, also blamed the authority for not detailing chawkidar to have vigilant in the scheme place even though it has been manned by four employees of the PHED.