shirdi's water woes: water purification machines donated

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- SHIRDI'S WATER WOES:WATER PURIFICATION MACHINES DONATED -

16th April`2011

During this year, approx 2 crore 70 lakh devotees have visitedShirdi, signaling a huge demand for pure Drinking Water.

And this demand is bound to only grow further,

as about 50,000 people on an average visit the temple on weekdays & 1.5 lakh on weekends. While, on special occasions, this

figure goes upto 3 lakhs. At present, packaged Drinking Waterworth approx Rs.1 lakh is sold every day in Shirdi.

So, to provide pure drinking water free of cost to all devoteescoming to Shirdi for Baba's Darshan,

an Andhra Pradesh based NGO, Raju Vegesna Foundation has

recently, at a cost of approx Rs.30 lakhs,installed 22 Reverse Osmosis (RO) Water Purification Machines in

the premises of the Sai Baba Temple @ Shirdi.

About 30,000 devotees are quenching their thirst with this free pure

drinking water every day.

Also, as the number of devotees visiting Shirdi has doubled in thelast 5 years, Shirdi & its nearby villages have developed very

rapidly thus the problem of continuous water supply to Shirdi has

become very crucial.

For which, in early 2009, Raju Vegesna Foundation had approachedthe Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust with a proposal to install a Water

Purification plant in Shirdi so that the devotees visiting Shirdi will no

longer have to buy bottled drinking Water.The Shirdi Sai Trust had given its approval for this proposal for

which the Raju Vegesna Foundation also donated a WaterPurification plant.

In Today's date, the work on this Water Purification plant is almostdone and is designed to cater to the large numbers of devotees

visiting Shirdi on any given day together with the Sai Prasadalaya,Sai Baba Hospital, the Temple premises, Dharamshala,

Common Toilet Complexes, Staff housing colonies and also two

villages namely Kankuri & Pimpalgaon to which the Shirdi SaiSansthan's own independent water supply and distribution system

supplies Water.


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But the crucial issue of the continuous Water supply to thisWater Purification Plant yet remains.

The Shirdi Sai Sansthan Trust has not yet decided,whether the Water for this Plant should be sourced from the

Nilwande Dam or the Dharna Dam.

There are no rivers flowing in Shirdi nor any significant Waterbodies such as Lakes & Ponds present, in and around Shirdi.

Two Streams namely Lendi and Sira which used to flow near Sai

Baba's Samadhi Temple have now dried up.So, the main source of Surface Water supply to Shirdi is from the

Right Bank Canal of the Godavari river.But, this canal is very dangerous & uncertain as it bursts every year

and can create a havoc if it burst in some remote area as then it

would take a lot of time to repair it.It is difficult to say as to when these canals on the Godavari river

will be permanently repaired.

Water for the domestic / irrigation needs of Shirdi town is metsubstantially by its ground water supply, but as for the needs of

surface Water, it has not yet been decided whether the same

should be facilitated from the uncertain Godavari canal or from thenearby Nilwande Dam or the Dharna Dam.

And even if so, then arrangements have to made for the water to

be conveyed from these Dams to Shirdi for which the old WTP &Distribution system has to be modified accordingly with strongerand increased capacity system. Also, the exact amount of how

many litres of Water should be sourced from these Dams, has yetto be worked out.


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