lucknow over 20000 people in vishnupuri colony and adjoining areas in aliganj are facing drinking water crisis for last one week as the tubewell installed in a park is unable to draw water due to depletion of groundwater levelaccording to residents they lodged a complaint with civic authorities but it was not redressed following which they decided to get reboring done on their ownhowever the work of reboring was stopped by a man with the help of police he claimed that the land belongs to him and he had secured a stay order from the court on any activity on the landresidents said as they depend on water from the tubewell they are forced to spend huge amount on purchasing water from the marketthey have also met the municipal commissioner mayor and urban development minister to seek redressal of their problemgeneral secretary of vishnupuri vistaar kalyan samiti sk srivastava said we have been getting supply from the tubewell for the last 15 years if there is a court stay on any activity the lucknow municipal corporation and jal sansthan should make alternate arrangement for us we all pay taxes and have a right to basic facilities aditya agarwal a resident said the water that we are getting from the tubewell is muddy and not fit for drinking we are buying water from a private company which sends its tankers daily residents have to make a beeline to collect waterjal sansthan secretary op sharma said no one has the right to stop basic facilities if there is a legal dispute we will approach the court in the meantime reboring will be done