navi mumbai despite healthy rainfall and swelling dam levels residents of kharghar taloja kamothe ulwe dronagiri new panvel and kalamboli continue to face a tough time due to erratic water supply in the last few days cidco has again failed to maintain the supply system alleged residentsmeanwhile cidco officials blamed frequent power tripping at the dam site and its treatment plant for erratic supply kharghar residents in particular are having a harrowing time for over a week with minimal water supply in many sectors while several sectors had to endure lowpressure supplywater scarcity has become a perennial problem for us a wellplanned township which does not have an efficient water supply mechanism has brought bad repute to the city planner namely cidco said arvind jain a sector 10 resident of khargharpublic protest rallies to cidco offices in the past against the irregular supply has yielded little result apart from verbal assurance from cidco officials said locals so many continue to dine out or stay outdoors to avoid water shortage and depend on costly tanker water my sister from chennai had visited me last week and was shocked to see our situation she was under the impression that we get uninterrupted water supply like chennai repeated complaints have yielded no results said another kharghar resident shanti srinivasanboth cidco and pcmc have become the target of angry residents for failing to deliver we live in kamothe and are used to frequent water cuts we have never seen regular supply here for the past two years while people in the nmmc area are privileged to regular supply we are deprived even of our quota despite being dependant on same morbe dam supply line this is a case of discrimination said sambit pattnaik from kamothe node p b kale superintendent engineer water supply cidco said stormy weather led to power failure and the supply system was cut off more than once in the dam sites and treatment plants which resulted in low pressure supply in many areas we also faced technical glitches in mjp and morbe supply system things will improve in a day or two pcmc commissioner sudhakar shinde said i received a few complaints in the last couple of days our engineers have been instructed to coordinate with their cidco counterparts to restore regular supply p m tambde pcmc engineer said we referred the matter to cidco higher ups and hope to get rid of the situation soon