Jamshedpur - India's only city where you can drink water straight from the tap

Sunday,28 September 2008 17:38 hrs IST
Drink straight from tap, thanks to Tata

Jamshedpur: This could be India's only city where you can drink water straight from the tap, thanks to the local utility. Ask oil mill owner Manoj Singh, who has paid Rs.10,500 for a connection - a month's income - but doesn't regret a single paisa.

Singh has found no cause for complaint since his working class neighbourhood Shastri Nagar, just outside the township, was connected to the JUSCO network last November.

"Yes, I paid a lot of money for the connection," Manoj Singh said. "But it has been worth it. Now the women do not have to go and queue up for hours to fetch drinking water. We get clean water in our taps, 24 hours a day. Where else in this country will you get that?"

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