guwahati ahead of the guwahati municipal corporation election city residents staged a demonstration at beltola on saturday demanding solution to the decadesold drinking water crisis at the earliestjust around 30 of nearly 3 lakh households in the city have access to household tap water the rest have to depend on the private water suppliers or tubewells to meet the crisis the state government had started construction of four water supply projects in the city a decade ago but those remained incomplete to datethe construction of the south west guwahati funded by jawaharlal nehru national urban renewal mission project was started in 2009 south central guwahati funded by jica in 2011 the north guwahati project funded by japan international cooperation agency in 2011 and the south east guwahati project funded asian development bank in 2016ashok das general secretary of the mahanagar unnayan samitis beltola wing said the city residents have been struggling with the drinking water crisis for decades assurances and promises were made by the ministers and mlas but nothing happened to date