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Hyderabad’s thirst to remain unquenched
With water levels touching all time low due to deficit rainfall in all catchment areas in the city as well as in Krishna and Godavari basins, the ‘city of lakes’ - Hyderabad - is heading towards acute drinking water crisis.
Hyderabad: With water levels touching all time low due to deficit rainfall in all catchment areas in the city as well as in Krishna and Godavari basins, the ‘city of lakes’ - Hyderabad - is heading towards acute drinking water crisis.
Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) already warned the civic body that emergency pumping from Krishna and Godavari reservoirs would be stopped from August in view of depleting water levels in the water bodies.
The government’s efforts to revive groundwater levels through rainwater harvesting pits in the city is also not satisfactory as the GHMC officials failed in executing the works. Though the south-west monsoon did not get rains in the city as expected and the IMD prediction is also said to be not so encouraging.
In the backdrop of this situation, officials said the present available water in the reservoirs would cater to the people’s needs for 60 days only. Speaking to The Hans India, Water Board Managing Director M Dana Kishore said the Water Board had been supplying 356 million gallons per day (MGD) water through Krishna Phase I, II, III (from Nagarjunasagar reservoir) and Godavari Phase I (from Mumur reservoir in Karimnagar district).
He said due to lack of inflows the Water Board might not draw water from both the reservoirs. To increase the depleting groundwater levels and to minimise water scarcity during the next few months, the city had no option but to depend on rainwater harvesting pits, he said. Dana Kishore said the HMWS&SB has so far constructed about 2,700 rainwater harvesting pits and would construct as many as possible to make use of every single raindrop.
On contrary, the GHMC has not been able to create awareness among the people on the need for rain harvesting pits. About 9,200 rainwater harvesting pits were defunct due to lack of maintenance. According to information gathered by this newspaper,
the civic body has spend Rs 64.59 lakh to construct 888 pits during 1998, Rs 86.45 to construct 1,026 harvesting pits in 1999, Rs 1.25 crore to construct 2,000 harvesting pits, Rs 3.17 crore to construct 2,135 pits during 2007 to 2012 and Rs 7.60 crore to construct 3,622 harvesting pits from 2012 to 2014.
