PHE Dept ‘hunting’ for illegal water connections in Jammu

Faced with the growing revenue loss, the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department is carrying out a survey to find illegal water supply connections in the city. With the population of 15 lakh, water crisis is looming large over the city as thousands of unregistered connections are squeezing water from the distribution system. Unregistered connections are the major reason for revenue shortfall, a fact detected by an audit conducted by the government following directions from the Central Government to streamline drinking water supply under the provision of the Water Regularity Authority…

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