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Hyderabad colonies stare at water crisis
Serious water crisis appears to be ahead in many colonies in the city as The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is in a hurry to finish the pipeline laying works for the peripheral municipalities as it has not been replacing the old pipelines as per original scheme but was only adding new pipelines to extend them to areas where there are no connections.
​Hyderabad: Serious water crisis appears to be ahead in many colonies in the city as The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is in a hurry to finish the pipeline laying works for the peripheral municipalities as it has not been replacing the old pipelines as per original scheme but was only adding new pipelines to extend them to areas where there are no connections.
The Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) had sanctioned Rs 1,900 crore to construct 56 reservoirs and replace entire stretch of old pipeline and extend them to areas where no water connections were available.
According to water board officials, the HMWS&SB has planned to supply drinking water to about 20 lakh population living in 12 peripheral circles in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits. Official said that the pipelines in merged municipalities including Kukatpally, Uppal, LB Nagar and Quthbullapur were at least two decades old and were meant to provide water to a mere 30, 000 population.
However, the officials said that eventually the population has increased rapidly and now on an average, each municipality has a population of about 1.5 lakh. They also said that the 20 year old pipelines have been damaged at several places resulting in about 25 per cent leakage of water.
Highly placed sources in the water board told The Hans India that the HMWS&SB to show that they had completed the project on time was only adding new pipelines to existing ones. This is resulting in leakages and bursting of old pipe lines at many places.
Sources opined that if the project continues in the same manner it would not be possible to supply drinking water daily. It is estimated that the leakage of water from old pipelines was around 4 million gallons a day (MGD).
When queried the about the same, a senior water board official on request on anonymity said that efforts were on to see that no glitches take place in regular supply of drinking water.
He said that water board MD M Dana Kishore was regularly monitoring the project. He, however, admitted that there has been delay in the HUDCO project due to several factors including seeking permission from the line departments and other.
