A Correspondent
Haflong: Every household of Thaisling Hower, a village located 45 km from Haflong on the Haflong-Dihangi road, for the first time since the establishment of the village, got piped water supply.
The village, in hilly geographic terrain, is inhabited by 62 households of the Dimasa community. The villagers were dependent on some hilly springs and open well for their drinking water as well as other day-to-day activities. The PHE Umrangso Division, aiming to provide water to each household, initiated the scheme with the support of the N C Hills Autonomous Council. This scheme has a provision of tapping a perennial hilly spring from which the raw water is transported through raw water gravity to the treatment plant. The treated water is stored in a Clear Water Reservoir (CWR) located within the campus of the scheme.
The location of the CWR is such that it can facilitate water supply through distribution networks under gravity to 21 households residing down the site of CWR. Hence, to cater to the remaining 41 households residing in the upper reach, another supporting CWR has been constructed in upper-level site to facilitate water supply under gravity to these families. So a provision of solar energization has been made to push the treated water from the CWR inside the scheme campus to the supporting CWR at the upper level.
The scheme is going to be operated intermittently two times daily to address the issues of drinking water availability, adequacy, and safety. After making the arrangements to facilitate water supply through distribution network under gravity to all households in the village, efforts will be initiated to provide functional household tap connection in every household so that the inconvenience of water collection from roadside stand can be avoided