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Acute water crisis looms large over city
About 70 per cent of the city population will face acute water crisis as the water levels at Nagarjuna Sagar reservoir has depleted all the time low to 501.2 feet after 2001. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has been supplying 355 MGD (millions of gallons per day) of water from Krishna Drinking Water Supply Project Phase I, II & III and Godavari phase I. Of them, a total
Hyderabad: About 70 per cent of the city population will face acute water crisis as the water levels at Nagarjuna Sagar reservoir has depleted all the time low to 501.2 feet after 2001. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has been supplying 355 MGD (millions of gallons per day) of water from Krishna Drinking Water Supply Project Phase I, II & III and Godavari phase I. Of them, a total of 270 MGD is received from the projects on Krishna River.
According Water Board officials, citing the severe water crisis the HMWS&SB has decided to conduct a high level meeting with the State Irrigation Department in order seek 1.5 Thousand Million Cubic (TMC) water from Srisailam reservoir on July 11. With no other source for drinking water supply for about 2/3 of the city population the meeting turned out to be crucial.
A senior Water Board official told The Hans India that water levels at Nagarjuna Sagar reservoir have plunged to new low recorded storage of 501.2 feet, which is below the minimum draw down level (MDDL) of 510 feet. Adding to the woes, he said, the emergency pumps which were installed with an estimated cost of Rs 7 crore were unable to draw water from the reservoir. Out of 10 emergency pumps only six have been able to pump the water from the reservoir.
The Water Board official further said that the 85 MGD water supply from Godavari phase I will only serve the drinking water needs of 30 per cent population. He said that the water board has already stopped water supply from Singur and Manjeera reservoirs, as the same is intended to be used for Mission Bhageeratha project.
He also said that the 10 MGD water supply from twin reservoirs Osman Sagar and Himayath Sagar will quench the thirst of the citizens. “These water levels are only going to last until the end of this month. If not done anything, city might face a water crisis during August”, official said.
Meanwhile, the water board has planned to conduct a meeting on July 11 with the State Irrigation Department in order to bring 1.5 TMC water from the Srisailam Dam. The current water level of Srisailam Dam is recorded to be 779.8 feet out of the total capacity of 885 feet. Official from the water board said that the Srisailam dam also lacks improvement due to no adequate rainfalls until now.
By Sasidhar Kocharlakota
