guwahati the guwahati wing of the all assam students union aasu on wednesday protested against the citys drinking water crisis a decadesold issue demanding its solution at the earliestthe protest came two days after minister of state for housing and urban affairs kaushal kishore said in the rajya sabha that the ongoing water projects in the city would be commissioned in a phasewise manner from march next yearpresident of the aasus guwahati wing anowar hussain said despite being situated on the banks of brahmaputra the residents of the city have to depend on private drinking water suppliers or boring or tubewell water merely 30 of the nearly 3 lakh households have access to household tap water this conspicuously shows the governments failure to ensure safe drinking waterhe added the government has given us assurances several times but no substantial step was taken till date we need no more assurances we need resultsfour water supply projects are being constructed in the city to sort out the drinking water crisis construction of the south east guwahati project funded asian development bank was started in 2016 south west guwahati funded by jawaharlal nehru national urban renewal mission jica in 2009 south central guwahati funded by jica in 2011 and the north guwahati project funded by japan international cooperation agency in 2011 the projects are yet to be completedon november 18 assam urban affairs minister ashok singhal told the media that it would take at least twoandahalf year more to sort out the drinking water crisis by completing all the four water projects in the city he however said his department would ensure partial commissioning in certain areas if possible after march next year after minute examination of the progress and other related aspects of the projectsthe gmc provides 45 million litre per day water supply through a pipeline network covering just about 30 of the city