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Water woes haunt Hastinapuram residents
Residents of Hastinapuram East under LB Nagar are facing water problems for the past seven years as the water board is not able to supply required quantity of drinking water and to top it off 90 per cent of the borewells in the area have gone dry.
Hyderabad: Residents of Hastinapuram East under LB Nagar are facing water problems for the past seven years as the water board is not able to supply required quantity of drinking water and to top it off 90 per cent of the borewells in the area have gone dry.
While some families are depending on water tankers others in the colony have fixed motors to drinking water supply connections. Repeated pleas to the senior officials of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) have fallen on deaf ears.
Speaking to The Hans India, president of the colony welfare association Krishna Reddy said, “In some areas there is no ground water even if one goes to a depth of 650 feet.”
He further said there is a pipeline the area, which was laid seven years ago, but due to faulty design it could not provide adequate water supply to the residents of the colony. This led to the residents fixing motors to the drinking water supply connections provided by the HMWS&SB.
Though it is illegal to augment water by fixing motors yet it has turned out to be the rule of law in the colony. The situation left some residents to depend on purchasing water tankers for every three to four days, he added. The residents association had lodged several written complaints with the senior officials of the HMWS&SB and GHMC but, no action has been taken so far.
That apart, residents had let out rain water pooled on the terrace of their buildings into drainage. The colony does not have community level Rain Water Harvesting Pits (RWHPs) like in some adjacent areas.
Residents diverting rain water into drainage made the ground water situation further complicated. The welfare association had requested the water board to conduct a door-to-door survey and fix the water meters and if needed slap fines on the erring residents to streamline water availability. But, no action has been taken so far by the officials.
All the promises made to provide adequate water to the residents for the last seven years remained on the paper. “The latest promise asks the residents to wait for one more year so they would get water under Mission Bhagiratha,” Krishna Reddy said.
