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No water woes for one third of Hyderabad
With Yellampalli reservoir reaching its full capacity on Wednesday, 30 per cent of the city denizens can now be assured of uninterrupted drinking water supply from River Godavari for the next one year.
Hyderabad: With Yellampalli reservoir reaching its full capacity on Wednesday, 30 per cent of the city denizens can now be assured of uninterrupted drinking water supply from River Godavari for the next one year.
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply Board Officials said they would supply 86 million gallons a day (MGD) from the Godavari Phase-1 project. On the contrary, the ground water levels in the city showed no improvement and the water level at Nagarjuna Sagar reservoir has reached dead storage level. About 70 per cent of the city could face an acute water crisis if the Krishna reservoir does not receive sufficient inflows by the first week of August.
Recent rains ensured that Kadem Irrigation Project in Adilabad district reached its full capacity. Nine gates of the reservoir were lifted on Tuesday to release 98,000 cusecs of water downstream, of which Yellampalli reservoir received about 50,000 cusecs.
As a result, Yellampalli project which has been receiving one thousand million cubic feet (TMC) water until a week ago has started to receive 8.110 TMC in the past 48 hours. The current water level at Yellampalli project is 467.360 feet, against a total capacity of 485.560 feet.
HMWS&SB operations director G Rameshwar told The Hans India that due to good inflows from the catchment areas of Kadem project, Yellampalli reservoir achieved its full capacity. He said that HMWS&SB would supply 86 MGD water round the year. He also said that the Water Board would supply 172 MGD from Godavari Phase-I during the current financial year by drawing water with five additional pumps.
He added that the groundwater level in the city was yet to improve and they were still supplying 270 MGD water from Krishna phase-I, phase-II and phase-III from the emergency pumping stations. Source in the Water Board said the situation would turn from bad to worse if Nagarjuna Sagar reservoir does not receive decent inflows by August 1.
By: Maddy Deekshith
