CHICOLNA, Feb. 29 -- The villagers of Chicolna-Bogmalo and the residents of the urban locality of Headland Sada have been living in hope and dying in despair, waiting for round-the-clock tap water supply.

Days have turned into months, months to years and years to decades. But water still doesn't run through their taps regularly, sometimes not at all.

Despite replacing the water pipelines, installing tanks and placing barrels outside their houses, these people have to comprise with only an hour of water supply in the morning and are compelled to go waterless the entire day.

Team Herald visited the parched village of Chicolna-Bogmalo, where a villager, on average, gets hardly one or two hours of water supply.

The shortage may be attribu...