Mission to curb water wastage kicks off

Hyderabad: With a view to curbing water wastage in the city and conserving water, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) and the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) have jointly launched a mobile app WaLC Alliance to mobilise volunteers to curb the water wastage.

Water Board officials say that 90 million litres are being wasted in the city every day due to various reasons including tap leakages, pipeline leakages, excessive domestic usage and other excessive usage of water like vehicle washing and house washing. The wastage per day in Hyderabad can meet the needs of 4 to 5 lakh people every day.

GHMC and HMWSSB jointly initiatedthe move with the vision to make Hyderabad water-secure city by building a people's movement with an action on reduction of wastage of water. Through WaLC mobile app, volunteers are mobilised by and they can mention the number of hours, days of the week and areas preferred so that programmes can be devised to utilise their services to take the message of water conservation to the people.

Speaking to The Hans India, P S Suryanarayana, Director (Training & Secondary Transmission), said, "We formed a team directors of HMWSSB and zonal commissioners of GHMC to train the WaLC volunteers to create awareness about the reduction of water wastage among the people of the city."So far 6,200 WaLC volunteers have registered and around 2,000 volunteers working with self-help groups have been trained in all the six zones of the city.

"Also, our officials along with these volunteers started 1,000-km WaLC survey to find out the pipe leakages and wastage of water in houses as well as excess water usage in houses in Kailash Nagar and this would be taken up in all the circles of the city from next week, he added.

Water is wasted due to leakages in pipeline, water wastage by overhead tank, washing vehicles, houses from the water pipes, washing clothes by keeping tap in running mode, using drinking water for gardening purpose, keeping tap open after taking the water.