The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has promised that normal water supply to the city will resume from Wednesday.

The BWSSB Engineer-in-Chief T Venkatraju said, “We are receiving water at the rate of 600 cusecs at Shiva Balancing Reservoir, and we are going to run all the pumps tonight. Normal water supply is likely to resume from Wednesday.”

As the water pressure at Madhavmantri barrage was less, the BWSSB was unable to pump the required quantity of 1,150 MLD for the past few days and that resulted in water scarcity in the city.

According to sources, water that was released from Hemavathy river has reached KRS and the water level has improved at KRS. But, the water has not reached Shiva Balancing Reservoir as claimed by the officials.

The water resources department has released the buffer storage maintained at Madhavmantri barrage expecting the water that is released from KRS to reach Madhavmantri by Wednesday.

The department has also released water at the rate of over 1,000 cusecs from KRS. If the water fails to reach Madhavmantri barrage within the expected time, water supply is likely to be partially affected on Thursday.

According to data obtained from the water resources department, there is 0.77 tmcft of live storage in Harangi, 1.64 tmcft live storage in Hemavathi and 1.39 tmcft of live storage at KRS.

Areas Affected

As the pumps in the Cauvery Drinking Water Project Stages I and II were stopped due to scarcity of water, supply was affected in Banashankari, Basavanagudi, Kumaraswamy Layout, Vidyapeetha, Yediyur, Girinagar, Mount Joy Service Station Area, Mysore Road, Hosahalli Service Station area, Chamarajpet, Azad Nagar, BTM Layout, J P Nagar, Jayanagar,  Ulsoor, Johnson Market Area, Neelasandra, Koramangala, Ganga Nagar, R T Nagar, Malleswaram and surrounding areas on Tuesday. People in these areas had to buy water from private suppliers through tankers at inflated prices.