HUBLI: Increasing
water level in important reservoirs of north-karnataka region,
following heavy rains since few days has come as big respite to overcome
the drinking water problems in many drought hit villages.

District administrations in Bijapur, Haveri, Gadag, Gulbarga and other
drought hit districts have made arrangements to supply drinking water
through tankers in villages.

According to sources, each family
in many villages of Haveri, Gadag, Bijapur, Raichur, Koppal, Belgaum was
fetching 1-2 pots of water every day.

Sources said, village
consisting of 800 to 1000 population, getting 2-3 water tanks per day
while each tanker contain 500-600 liters of water. Nearly, 750 villages
of north-karnataka are being supplied water with tankers now.

With the heavy rains lashing the region since few days, water level in
most important reservoirs of north-karnatak is increasing day by day and
authorities heaving a sigh of relief in Bijapur, Belgaum, Gulbarga,
Dharwad, Bidar, certain parts of Raichur and Koppal who are now thinking
to stop supply of water through tankers in some villages.

According to sources, Rakkaskppa reservoir which spread on 865 acres of
land and supplies water to Belgaum city is overflowing now. Belgaum
citizen are now getting water daily instead of twice in week after
overflowing of Rakkaskoppa.

Water level in Tunga Bhadra dam has
reached to 1612.90 ft against 1633 ft. Increasing water level in TB dam
has come as big relief to the authorities to solve the drinking water
problems faced by many villages of Hospet, Bellary.

The water
level in Almatti dam which has almost dried up following the scanty
rainfall till July end, is now receiving huge inflow of water since
there was heavy rain on the Krishna basin in Maharastra. Water level had
reached to 518.07 mtrs against its 519.60 mtrs in Almatti. If it rains
for one or two days on Krishna basis, water level will reach to its
capacity, said officials.

Inflow of water is also improving in
Malaprabha reservoir which supplies water to twin cities of
Hubli-Dharwad. Water level had almost reached the dead storage last
month but now with copious rainfall, water level had increased to 9.7
TMC water in Malaprabha reservoir allaying the fear of facing acute drinking water problem in twin cities.

Besides, the water level in Narayanpur dam also increased to 490.60
mtrs against 492.25 mtrs which supplies water to Gulbarga, Yadgiri and
Raichur due to good rainfall in the last few years.