‘Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation spends 10% of budget on drinking water’

AHMEDABAD: Each budget year the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) spends an average of 10.5% of its annual expenditure on supply and augmenting of drinking to its 7 million Amdavadis.
According to an analysis by Patheya budget centre, “The budget expenditure on drinking water has declined from 13% in 2015-16 to 9.24% in 2020-21. AMC’s annual budget document for 2020-21 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, that’s 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 .