Metro Water Board seeks more water for Mission Bhagiratha
The Water Board has asked the state government to provide it 16.20 million gallons (MGD) of water from the Godavari drinking water supply scheme.
Hyderabad: The Metro Water Board is supplying increasing quantities of water for Mission Bhagiratha, and has asked the state government for more water from the Godavari to supply peripheral areas of the GHMC and villages along the Outer Ring Road.
The Water Board has asked the state government to provide it 16.20 million gallons (MGD) of water from the Godavari drinking water supply scheme for the drinking water supply requirements of the GHMC area.
Phase-1 of the Godavari scheme was commissioned in December 2015 and 114 MGD is being sent to the Ghanpur reservoir to supply Quthbullapur, Kukatpally and Serilingampally circles. As per the approval of the government, the board is supplying water to Mission Bhagiratha at Kondapaka, Pragnapur and Ghanpur off take points.
As against the permitted quantity of 28.8 MGD, the board is supplying Mission Bhagiratha 32 MGD. Mission Bhagiratha officials have sought an additional 61.42 MGD for rural water supply schemes in Jangaon, Siddipet, Ghanpur, Medchal and Pragnapur segments, of which 32 MGD is being supplied.
Stating that the requirement of Mission Bhagiratha was increasing, Water Board managing director Dana Kishore in a letter to the government, said another 56 MGD could be drawn from the Godavari scheme through the fifth and sixth pump operations.
He sought permission for the board to provide an additional 16.2 MGD in addition to the permitted 28.80 MGD, to total 45 MGD, for Mission Bhagiratha, He sought permission to draw an equivalent quantity of water from the Singur system for the drinking water supply requirements of the GHMC area