ahmedabad each budget year the ahmedabad municipal corporation amc spends an average of 105 of its annual expenditure on supply and augmenting of drinking to its 7 million amdavadisaccording to an analysis by patheya budget centre the budget expenditure on drinking water has declined from 13 in 201516 to 924 in 202021 amcs annual budget document for 202021 had claimed that per capita water supply is 140 to 150 litres a day but in reality the per day capita water consumption of an individual in posh areas like thaltej bodakdev gota ghatlodia and chandlodia is 309 litres a day the highest in the city then comes areas like navrangpura paldi nava wadaj sabarmati areas each individual consumes an average 270 litres a day but individuals in sardarnagar nobelnagar bapunagar saijpur bogha consume 213 litres a day thats the least an individual consumes in the city quite interestingly areas like jodhpur vejalpur sarkhej and maktampura consumes 217 litres of water a day in the posh west zones what is worrying most households use high capacity pumps which ultimately leads to large municipal water consumption says an amc official