Hyderabad Could Run Out Of Drinking Water As City Has Only 48 Days Of Supply Left
With the monsoon playing hide and seek and reservoirs not receiving fresh inflows with no rains in the catchment areas, Hyderabad is staring at a severe water crisis. As on today, drinking water supplies for nearly one crore population of twin
Monsoon is here but there are still several cities that are yet to receive rainfall. The monsoon rains are trying to make up for the deficit due to its delay but there are cities still staring at a severe water crisis soon. Come August end this year and Hyderabad could lose all its drinking water. According to a report in the Times of India, reservoirs are not receiving fresh inflows from the scanty rains in the catchment areas because of which Hyderabad is staring at a severe and extreme water crisis.
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Drinking water supplies in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad and adjacent areas of Greater Hyderabad could maximum last till August-end.
"If monsoon plays truant, there is every likelihood of Hyderabad facing water crisis from the second week of September," a senior Water Board official said as quoted to as saying by the Times of India.
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) problems refuse to abate as water levels in all the reservoirs are down to precarious levels. In comparison to last year in July, the water levels this year are down by 12 feet.
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Since the onset of monsoon in Telangana, there is hardly any fresh inflows in the drinking water sources namely Nagarjunasagar (Krishna), Sripada Yellampally (Godavari) and twin reservoirs of Osmansagar and Himayatsagar.
The HMWSSB officials said that by this time the levels go up by 5-10 feet in all the water levels but that hasn't happened this time around. They added that not even 1 feet of water has been added to the existing levels.
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The fact that levels in some of the city reservoirs have gone down to 12 feet and even gone below 6 feet in some others shows the seriousness of the water crisis. The level in Sripada Yellampally was 468 meters on July 11 last year and this year on the same day it stands at 459 metres showing that the level has gone down by 9 meters below.
However, the officials are hopeful of good rainfall in the next fortnight or so that could reduce the deficit and fill these catchment areas.
