Special Correspondent COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation is closely watching the water position in the Siruvani Dam, which provides drinking water to one half of the city and also three municipalities and some panchayats south and west of the city. With the number of water connections rising in the city and the suburbs, the local bodies are struggling to meet the demand with a meagre resource. While the city manages to sustain alternate day supply, the other local bodies have quietly re-scheduled the supply. The gap between two supplies has increased from four days to a week. In some local bodies such as Kurichi, it is more than a week. Water managers in the Corporation point out that the South West Monsoon and the North-East Monsoon have not been good enough this year to ensure that drinking water position in the coming summer will be at least as comfortable as the one last year. The water level in the dam on January 5 this year is close to 60 ft, as against over 61 ft last year. The South West Monsoon rainfall in 2007 was more than 2,700 mm. It was only around 1,500 mm in 2008. What this monsoon provides from June to September becomes an investment for the following summer. The North-East Monsoon only adds to this. And, even this monsoon has not offered much. It provided 569 mm in 2007 and 484 in 2008. Mayor R. Venkatachalam says the water position is comfortable as of now. Austerity on the part of the people is needed to manage the situation during summer.