For the third day in a row Gurgaon continued to reel under an unprecedented water crisis caused by the discontinuation in the supply of water following a breach in the Gurgaon canal. The breach in the canal that caters to seventy per cent of the city's water needs has plunged the city in to a deep-water crisis forcing the administration to seek help from neighbouring cities and the Army. The situation is likely to remain grim even in the next 2-3 days, as the repair work would take its own time, the administration said. About 400 tankers were pressed into service to supply ground water to residents on Monday. The most affected areas included Sectors 4, 7, 9, 22,23,10 A and DLF City. Rao Inderjit Singh, Union Minister of State for Defence Production said that GOC, Delhi Area had been directed to supplement the District Administration's need for water tankers from other sources. The GOC, Delhi Area, had pressed 29 tankers - with capacities ranging from 5,000 to 12,000 kilo litres - in to service. More Army tankers are going to be deployed in the various localities of Gurgaon city. However, the Gurgaon administration has claimed that there was enough water to meet the needs of the people and necessary arrangements were made to overcome the water shortage problem which would remain for the next two days due to the breach in the Gurgaon Water Supply Channel and that there was no need to panic. Instead, people were asked to be patient and use water judiciously. Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Gupta asserted this on Monday. He said that the channel supplying water to Gurgaon originated in Sonepat and passed through Jhajjar and a breach had occurred in Bupania village of district Jhajjar due to which supply had been interrupted. One breach took place on March 17 and consumers were then supplied water from the reservoirs of HUDA. Now, another breach had occurred at the same site but on opposite side. Repairs were being carried out on a war footing and the Jhajjar Deputy Commissioner Vijay Dahiya was personally supervising the work. Gupta said that the State Government and district administration were serious about the issue and the Chief Secretary Dharamvir had called a meeting of Secretaries of the concerned departments late on Saturday evening. The Deputy Commissioner said that the Chief Minister had directed the Jhajjar district administration and police to get the Gurgaon Water Channel repaired at the earliest and ensure that the water supply in it was not disrupted. He had also asked HUDA authorities to increase the water storage capacity and also to explore alternate source of water for Gurgaon. Gupta said that repairs to the channel were going on and were expected to be completed by Monday night or latest by Tuesday evening. So, water in the channel was expected to flow by Wednesday morning. Till then the consumers in channel fed area would have to depend on water tankers and use water sparingly. According to the Deputy Commissioner 30 per cent of Gurgaon city was tube-well fed and 70 percent of the area depended on channel water. The worst affected areas would be in western part of the city including Sectors 4,7,22,23,10A and adjoining areas. To meet their demands, water tankers had been pressed into service. The administration had set a target of 400 tankers and hopes to get 300 of these by Monday evening. Help was sought from neighbouring districts like Rewari, Faridabad, Mahendergarh, Jhajjar and also from the Army. Gupta said that four control rooms had been set up where consumers could inform their water related complaints. The control room for the Municipal Council area was in the billing office of the Public Health in New Colony and its phone number was 0124-2220111. Similarly, the control room for Estate Officer (1) had been set up in his office and the phone numbers were 0124-2321253, for estate officer (2) area the control room phone number was 0124-2571346 and for the entire HUDA area the control room was in the HUDA complex of Sector 14 with phone number 0124-3254425 had been setup. These control rooms would remain operational from 7.00 am to 8.00 pm during crisis days.