Goodbye to tankers
Sameer Vyas, Managing Director, New Tirupur Area Development Corporation Limited, talks to M.C. Vaijayanthi about the uniqueness of the Tirupur Water Supply Project. India's famous knitwear town, Tirupur, which earns a billion US dollars a year through exports, decided to take the private route in the early 1990s to put an end to its water woes. Situated 50 km east of Coimbatore, Tirupur for years has been running on water transported through tankers from afar and whatever little groundwater it had was declared polluted and unfit for human consumption. Tirupur town realised its dream of organised water supply to the town in February this year when the New Tirupur Area Development Corporation Ltd's project was launched. Though skeptics have been crying foul over things ranging from high price, the households and industry have to pay for the water as well as thousands of households being left out of the scheme, NTADCL says that the project is doing fine in terms of c...