Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) is
ready to spend even Rs. 100 crore to provide regular drinking piped
water supply to un-served areas like slums in the core city, said
Managing Director M. Dana Kishore.

At a meeting with his senior
officials in the Board head office, he was surprised that there were
many un-served areas and dependent on tankers supply. Henceforth, new
water supply lines would be laid in such areas and tankers supply would
be halted, he said on Wednesday.

Initially, alternate day supply
would be started and in short span, the decision of the Government to
provide daily water supply would also be started, he affirmed and called
for reduction of supply through tankers in the coming six months as
these should be for commercial purposes only.

Mr. Kishore was
confident that regular complaints of pollution, sewerage overflows,
chokages should be reduced drastically with the introduction of Jetting
Machines (mini air-tech).

It
would also bring down the operations and maintenance expenditure once
the managers concerned chalk out a daily programme for using these
machines in small lanes only and a log book should be maintained on
movement of these vehicles.

The MD reiterated that construction of
silt chambers was mandatory for new water supply/sewerage connections
and wanted at least 40 silt chambers per month in each division.

And, those already constructed should be geo-tagged within a few days.