Alternate Water Supply for Indore

Q: I know that Indore faces bad water shortage but are there plans of using the Choral river as a solution? Is the dam going to be constructed in Mhow?

Rahat Amin, Indore

11th July 2014

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The Narmada water project is way more expensive when you sit down and do do the math. The mayor feels that Indore is too heavily dependent on the Narmada river and we all know how much that is true. Every time some Narmada pipeline bursts, no water supply for days. When there is pollution, we get sewage in our drinking water. And sometimes just no water at all. At least the Choral river is brought to Indore by gravitational force and doesn't need to be pumped. Because of this the proposed 180 mld of water from Choral will cost Rs 12/1000 litres and the 360 mld from Narmada costs rs 32/1000 liters. And totally, Narmada project is costing 673 crores as opposed to 260 crores of Choral project. Definitely we need this project for the entire city!

Faizan Khan, Indore

12th July 2014

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yes for alternate water supply Indore has decided to take up this project. Everybody knows water scarcity in Indore is very bad. A project report has already been made on how they plan to draw 180 mld of water from Choral. They have help of central and state government also for this project. The plan is to construct a 50 feet high and 600 get long dam in Ratvi village near Kalakkand in Mhow tehsil. It is costing them around 250 crores for this project. I think this project will benefit Indore because there are always some problem or the other with Narmada water supply. And doesn't seem like linking of Narmada Kshipra is also going to happen soon. So at least this should be the solution.

Naveen Jaitley, Indore

12th July 2014

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Yes that's right. The Indore Development Authority had a meeting recently where they decided to build a dam on the Choral river to face the acute water crisis situation in Indore. Apart from this they also have plans of constructing a flyover in Bengali square and cleaning up of ponds like Hatod and Asravad Khurd. Apparently it will be cheaper getting water from the Choral river than pumping water from the Narmada. But in either case let's hope this works out and won't cause any problems.

Wasim Iqbal, Indore

11th July 2014

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