(Siasat News)After facing the load shedding of electricity, the residents of the city of Hyderabad may have to suffer the shortage of drinking water in the near future.
Due to insufficient rainfall in the neighboring states of Maharashtra and Karnataka, the reservoirs are not getting sufficient quantity of water deposited in them.
As a result of it, it is likely that supply of drinking water may be slashed down in the month of February or afterwards.
The water level in Osmansagar is 1772.15 ft. this year as against 1782.44 ft. last year during this period. In the same manner, the water level in Himayathsagar is 1747.02 ft as against 1755.84 ft last year.
Singur has 1701.199 ft as against 1716.455 ft. last year. In Manjira also, the situation is not satisfactory. It recorded 1643.6 ft as against 1649 ft last year during the same period.
The officials of water works say that the flow of water into these reservoirs is not satisfactory. They say that due to illegal constructions in the catchments areas of these reservoirs, flow of water is getting affected. In order to continue to supply 340 million gallons of water daily to Hyderabad city, it is necessary that the total storage of water in all the water reservoirs should be 21TMC
Mr. Sunder Ram Reddy, Incharge Director (Technical) Hyderabad Water Works reported that the present stock of water in Osmansagar and Himayathsagar is 0.977 TMC and 0.882 TM respectively. By the end of September if the flow of water is satisfactory, it may go up to 1.5 TMC. If this doesn’t happen, the officials of Water Works would be forced to reduce the supply of drinking water to the city. The officials are trying to get 180 million gallon water from Krishna River; 11 TMC from Majira dam. At present they have 117 MC water in store, out of which half of the water is likely to be allocated for the supply of drinking water in the city.
In such a case, the water levels in Osmansagar and Himayathsagar becomes important because to fulfill the annual requirements of drinking mater, 21 TM water is required whereas from all these sources, less amount of water is available.
—-Siasat News