Chennai residents have mixed opinions about effluent pipeline

In one of the major developments in the neighbourhood, the leather tanners in Pallavaram, are working to lay a 13.5 kilometre-long underground pipeline, to transport treated effluents generated at their industries, to the Perungudi Sewage Treatment Plant.

Chennai water woes: Many solutions but permanent one is still elusive

Joint director and public relations manager at Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) R Neelakandan said, “At present, Chennai’s waterbodies hold a little more than 1 tmc ft of the total 11 tmc ft. Taking that into account, water in the major catchment areas may well be exhausted within the next 45 days.”