PANAJI: A group of students residing at the women’s hostel on Goa University campus at Taleigao on Tuesday held a protest to highlight the shortage of water at the residential facility. The female students protested holding empty buckets outside the hostel facility.
They said they have been experiencing water shortage since the last one week and that it was leading to unhygienic conditions at the hostel. The water supply being received is turbid, affecting around 100 students.
Students said they have brought the issue to the notice of the hostel authorities, but the problem has remained unresolved.
“Here at the women’s hostel, we have not had sanitary water supply for the past 3-4 days, and it has significantly negatively impacted my health and as well as mental state. I personally have been experiencing nausea, sore throat, and stomach ache. The water coming out is brown from the taps as well as the water purifier,” the complaint written by a student to the hostel authorities reads.
The students said that they have been experiencing the shortage on and off since March this year.
“There is no clean water here, and hence we are spending a large sum of money on drinking water. I have ISA tomorrow, I have been so focused on how I will manage without clean water. I am unable to study,” wrote the student.
Students asked university officials to understand the grave depth of the issue of contaminated water and its impact on students’ health.
The students have asked for intervention of the Goa University officials as those incharge of the water supply at the hostel have been unable to address their problem.
