Siri Jagan, J.

These original petitions are in the nature of public interest litigation ventilating the grievances of the people of West Kochi who have been clamouring for supply of potable drinking water to them, for the last more than three decades. They have approached this Court as a last resort, their lamentations, before the powers that be having fallen on deaf ears.

2. The pleadings in these original petitions give no room for any doubt that the grievances ventilated by the petitioners representing the people of West Kochi is a genuine and eminently deserving appropriate orders from this Court. Respondents do not dispute the necessity to provide drinking water to the people of West Kochi. These original petitions have been pending since April, 2000. Although the respondents have been submitting before this Court that steps are being taken to complete projects for the supply of water to people of West Kochi, nothing concrete in the form of actual supply of water has emerged so far. In the above circumstances, by order dated 1-2-2006, we directed the learned Government Pleader to get instructions as to when it would be possible to give regular water supply to the re