AGARTALA, May 22 (TIWN): Terrible water crisis hits the southern part of the Agartala Municipal Council to a large extant. Though on the onset of monsoon, limited amount of rain outbursts in the city, but it falied to tackle the water scarcity. People rely on water hand pumps and local streams installed in few villages. It is also reported that Gomati river, Howrah river and other water streams are drying up fast which have been not witnessed in previous years.

With that, with the starting of dry seasons, most of the areas in Agartala city and interior places are facing acute crisis of drinking water. However, the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) is maintaining deaf ear to avoid the several pleas in crisis of drinking water.

Clean, safe drinking water is scarce. Today, most of the people in the so called developing Tripura don't have access to it. Yet, we take it for granted, we waste it, and we even pay too much to drink it from little plastic bottles. Water is the foundation of life. And still today, all across the state, far too many people spend their entire day searching for it. In places hilly areas of the state, time lost gathering water and suffering from water­borne diseases is limiting people's true potential.

As more people put ever increasing demands on limited supplies, the cost and effort to build or even maintain access to water will increase. And water's importance to political and social stability will only grow with the crisis.

The latest statistics shows, as many as 330 habitations of Tripura are still uncovered for purified potable water sources. Obviously, these locations are always prone to the spread of waterborne of diseases and ever year at least two outbreaks of seasonal gastro infections – pre monsoon and post monsoon are reported over the decades. Although the administration has taken steps to contain the intensity of the diseases by introducing several methods in vulnerable location and supply of water by tankers; Yet safe and good health care facilities are still absent in more than 1276 distant locations of Tripura.