HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) plans to provide ingesting water day-to-day to households within the town may have to stay up for some other month.
For, in spite of the upstream spaces of Osmansagar and Himayathsagar witnessing heavy rains, not a single drop of water has reached the twin reservoirs, that are the principle source of potable water for the town. According to HMWS&SB officials, regardless that the new spell of rainfall has managed to replenish the upstream spaces of these two a very powerful reservoirs, it will take some other two to three good spells of rainfall of their upstream spaces for the inflows to achieve the twin reservoirs because the water has to trip a distance of 10-15km from Ananthagiri Hills.
While the recorded water degree at Osmansagar reservoir on Saturday was once 1778-ft as in opposition to an FTL (complete tank degree) of 1790-ft, a deficit of 2ft, the Himayathsagar reservoir had an enormous 10toes deficit on Saturday with a recorded water degree of 1753toes as in opposition to the FTL of 1763toes. “It will take at least two months for the water inflows to achieve the FTL degree at Himayathsagar,” the legit mentioned. “If the inflows into those reservoirs build up, most effective then will the Water Board be capable to supply potable water each day. But this will additionally rely at the choice of the executive minister and HMWS&SB chairman Okay Chandrasekhara Rao,” mentioned the Water Board legit.
This implies that regardless that HMWS&SB is all geared up to attract water from the twin reservoirs, it will have to attend at least till August end to renew drawing its assured quantum of 40 million gallons of water in step with day (MGD) from them. In truth, the Water Board has not been in a position to attract 40MGD water from those dual reservoirs for the past one and a part years as it has not were given the vital orders from the state executive.
“In view of the rainy season, we now have attended to repairs works of these dual reservoirs like maintenance and portray of the crust gates because we now have not operated those gates for the past one and part yr,” the legit added.
For, in spite of the upstream spaces of Osmansagar and Himayathsagar witnessing heavy rains, not a single drop of water has reached the twin reservoirs, that are the principle source of potable water for the town. According to HMWS&SB officials, regardless that the new spell of rainfall has managed to replenish the upstream spaces of these two a very powerful reservoirs, it will take some other two to three good spells of rainfall of their upstream spaces for the inflows to achieve the twin reservoirs because the water has to trip a distance of 10-15km from Ananthagiri Hills.
While the recorded water degree at Osmansagar reservoir on Saturday was once 1778-ft as in opposition to an FTL (complete tank degree) of 1790-ft, a deficit of 2ft, the Himayathsagar reservoir had an enormous 10toes deficit on Saturday with a recorded water degree of 1753toes as in opposition to the FTL of 1763toes. “It will take at least two months for the water inflows to achieve the FTL degree at Himayathsagar,” the legit mentioned. “If the inflows into those reservoirs build up, most effective then will the Water Board be capable to supply potable water each day. But this will additionally rely at the choice of the executive minister and HMWS&SB chairman Okay Chandrasekhara Rao,” mentioned the Water Board legit.
This implies that regardless that HMWS&SB is all geared up to attract water from the twin reservoirs, it will have to attend at least till August end to renew drawing its assured quantum of 40 million gallons of water in step with day (MGD) from them. In truth, the Water Board has not been in a position to attract 40MGD water from those dual reservoirs for the past one and a part years as it has not were given the vital orders from the state executive.
“In view of the rainy season, we now have attended to repairs works of these dual reservoirs like maintenance and portray of the crust gates because we now have not operated those gates for the past one and part yr,” the legit added.
Reservoirs not brimming for Hyd taps to gush
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July 15, 2018
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