Hyderabad: 77 cr litres of water wasted daily in city

Hyderabad: Around 70 crore liters of water is wasted everyday in the city, says Dana Kishore, managing director, HMWSSB. He was addressing a walk-through programme at Jubilee Hills Theme Park on Friday. The programme was designed to educate citizens on reducing wastage of drinking water and saving it, said officials.

"The water supply to the ORR is about 472 MGDs (million gallons per day), which is approximately 214 crore liters of fresh water. It is said that 170 MGDs of water is being consumed every day for house chores, sweeping and cleaning, washing of animals and vehicles and also for watering plants and the water used for all these works are precious drinking water.

It is hoped that, this walk-through programme will reduce the water supply by 5 per cent if we could control wastage of fresh water," said Dana Kishore, MD, HMWSSB.

Nearly 250 employees of Bank of America have participated in the walk-through programme. They visited nearly a 1,000 houses in Chandanagar, Jubilee Hills and Miyapur and conducted awareness programmes on water saving. The meeting was attended by the Director of Water Resources Operations-II Ravi and CGM, GM and others participated.