Guwahati: The Guwahati Municipal Corporation's (GMC) Satpukhuri water supply plant will suspend distribution for two days starting Tuesday, affecting 16 localities due to essential restoration work at the plant's intake point.
The interruption will impact approximately 15,000 households that receive water from this scheme, which processes 22.5 million litres of water daily.
The affected localities include Uzanbazar, Guwahati Club, Silpukhuri, Chandmari, Govt. Press area, Kharghuli, Housing Colony, Krishnanagar, Nizarapar, Kanwachal, Nabagiri, Pensionpara, Milanpur, Nabagraha area, Udaigiri and Chitrachal hill area.
On Monday, GMC's assistant executive of water works department released a statement saying, "It is for general information to the consumers under Satpukhuri water supply scheme of Guwahati Municipal Corporation that supply will be disrupted for two days, November 12 and 13, due to breakdown of the transformer at the intake point of Satpukhuri water supply scheme."
The municipal corporation serves over 33,000 consumers through three water treatment facilities in the city. The Satpukhuri facility, established in 1930 and upgraded in 1984, operates alongside the Panbazar plant (commissioned 1963) and the Kamakhya plant (commissioned 1992).
Notably, approximately 70% of the city's 3 lakh households rely on private water suppliers or bore wells. To address the long-standing water shortage, the JICA-assisted South Central Guwahati water project, with a capacity of 191 million litres, began partial operations in Dec 2022, serving three of the city's five assembly constituencies.