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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 12 claims and 10 source dossiers.
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As the water crisis peaked in March 2024 the board cut supply to bulk users by 20% and banned Cauvery drinking water for car washing, gardening, construction and fountains, with a 5,000-rupee fine and 500 rupees a day for repeat offences
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descriptive
apartment complexes above twenty units must already treat and reuse their own sewage
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quantitative
The board reissued the ban in July 2026, extended it to swimming pools and gave buildings until 31 July to fit tap aerators
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quantitative
the equivalent 2024 deadline had been pushed back
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quantitative
The promised AI water meters remain a 2,000-connection pilot
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quantitative
The water board counted 22 households fined 5,000 rupees each, 1.1 lakh rupees in all, in the first two weeks of enforcement of the March 2024 ban
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quantitative
only one in five homes have rainwater harvesting, the board sold 163.28 million litres of treated water in February 2025 and collected 59,28,839 rupees for it, and the smallest quantity it offers is 6,000 litres
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quantitative
commercial users are about 10% of connections and take around 41% of the Cauvery supply — against roughly 1.09 million consumers already metered mechanically at the tap
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quantitative
A 2020 regulation makes internal water meters compulsory in every flat of an apartment block above a size threshold, but only from a date the state government never notified, with no penalty attached — and the regulation says in terms that those readings may not be used to calculate the board's bills
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quantitative
What is left to shape demand is prohibition: 5,000 rupees for washing a car, 500 a day for repeating it, and up to half the supply cut off
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quantitative
Since 2016 apartments above twenty units on the sewer network have had to build their own treatment plant or pay a levy of a quarter and then half of the monthly bill, and by December that year around 1,900 of the 3,348 such blocks had been billed the levy
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the city draws about 1,372 million litres a day of groundwater on top of 1,460 from the Cauvery, against natural recharge estimated as low as 148
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src-26ae6b0a90a6cb0dCarries the 20% supply cut to bulk users from 15 March 2024, the affected areas, and the 5,000-rupee penalty for using drinking water to wash cars or water gardens.
src-f2e59d56bc88e6a2Source of the impact figure: 1.1 lakh rupees collected from 22 households. Direct fetch blocked; article existence and content verified by search, and the same count appears in a second outlet of the same date. The number originates with the water board itself.
src-77c7cc323cbe2bc0The honest counterweight and the fine structure. Reports that most households lack the dual piping needed to substitute treated water, that the previous year's commercial aerator mandate was largely unimplemented, and that only about one in five homes has rainwater harvesting.
src-b9287efe5323ac57Currency check: pool-filling ban, mandatory aerators, treated or recycled water required for vehicle washing, gardening and construction; fines and up to a 50% supply cut.
src-36dc97506988238dSecond independent confirmation of the July 2026 order, with the 31 July 2026 aerator deadline and the covered categories.
src-4c40349b1d74df2eEvidence that deadlines slip: the 2024 aerator deadline was extended twice before the mandate was reissued in 2026. Direct fetch blocked; headline and outlet verified by search.
src-f42ba52427b4dd22The metering reality check: a 2020 regulation requires internal per-flat meters, but only within a date the state government never notified, and an official confirms the regulations carry no penalty for non-implementation.
src-042d3bea339c911aPhase 1 is 2,000 meters for bulk consumers on a rental model, expandable to about 98,000 connections. Announcement stage — no deadline, no mandate.
src-fa59a583b4d5c55cSource for the reuse mandate and its contested history, the penal tariff for non-compliance, and the criticism that the rule loads the burden onto apartment residents.
src-0f289ead7822d1c9Independent structural context by a hydrogeologist: the collapse in the number of water bodies and in storage capacity, and groundwater extraction far above natural recharge. An expert compilation citing secondary reports, not primary measurement.