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.
