because tala water is used in such abundance at the dhobi ghat there is bound to be some shortfall somewhere in the city water is allotted to different city zones and when an area exceeds the limit we supply water from tankers it was work as usual on thursday at south dhobi ghat on ritchie road where nearly 80000 litres of drinking water are wasted every day to wash clothes his family uses a pump to draw underground water for home use its unacceptable that drinking water should be used to wash clothes when we dont get enough water to drink he added sagarika mohta a homemaker said that summer months were particularly bad every day even before breakfast i make sure all the buckets are filled the area has stayed parched for years now so much so that most houses do not rely on municipal supply for their drinking water we have a water reservoir but on most days it does not fill because of the low pressure in the supply pipeline water from kolkata municipal corporation kmc is safe for drinking and does not have to be filtered a kmc executive engineer said that the ritchie road area has multiple water connections from the garden reach and tala supply lines many residents claim to have complained to kmc about the chronic water shortage but in vain manojit mitra a vintage car collector and son of late chief justice shankar prasad mitra said the water crisis in the area was a nagging problem while my husband and i can manage theres a problem every time my son comes home on a break she said even when the corporation water comes the pressure is very low the family of debashis das a sales professional is one of the worst affected piped water comes to his house for a mere one and half hours every morning otherwise my family wont get water the whole day he said apparently shocked at the waste of drinking water at the nearby dhobi ghat but armed with the ct article we went around the posh south kolkata mohalla only to find that the entire area is struggling to get its share of drinking water even as the criminal waste of the precious resource continues unabated at the dhobi ghat