Drinking water shortage continues to be grim in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region which has recorded average 125 mm rainfall only. Aurangabad, Beed, Jalna and Osmanabad districts of Marathwada region are badly affected.
According to Divisional Commissioner officials sources, due to sparse rain, 2,263 water tankers are still supplying water to the 1,662 villages and 479 hamlets comprising 53.16 lakh populations in peak period of monsoon. The administration had acquired 5,530 private wells to supply and fill up water tankers.
Aurangabad district is most affected in the region where still 689 tankers are pressed in service to supply water to affected 539 villages and 89 hamlets, followed by 623 tankers in Beed for 425 villages and 198 hamlets, 360 tankers in 301 villages and 82 hamlets in Jalna district, 223 tankers in 158 villages and 11 hamlets in Osmanabad district, 137 tankers in 76 villages and 61 hamlets in Nanded district, 104 tankers in 81 villages and 21 hamlets in Latur, 68 tankers in 55 villages and 13 hamlets in Parbhani, and 50 tankers in Hingoli district’s 36 villages and four hamlets, the sources added.
