Mayor A. Ramachandran said on Friday that CCTV cameras would be installed over the water tanks for surveillance.
On Friday evening, the Mayor held a review meeting with the officials regarding the water supply.
In the meeting, the Mayor sought details of the frequency of water supply to the households through 57 overhead water tanks and 1.17 lakh water connections in a month within the limits of the corporation.
The mayor also sought suggestions for supply of water to households at regular intervals and directed officials to collect accurate details of water connections from each overhead water tank.
The mayor said that in order to ensure the supply of water to the houses at regular intervals, CCTV cameras are to be installed in all the overhead water tanks, and he ordered the fitters to display the time of water supply in the respective areas with a date .
The mayor also directed officials to monitor whether domestic water connections are used for commercial purposes.
Corporation commissioner T. Kristuraj, city engineer G. Ravi, and Assistant Commissioners Ramesh Babu, Shanti, Thiagarajan, Kathiresan and Subbaiah participated.