Hyderabad will be fully a sewage treated city by August-end: KTR

HYDERABAD: Municipal minister K.T. Rama Rao on Saturday said that by the end of August, every drop of sewage produced in the city would be treated, making Hyderabad the first city in the country to have 100 per cent sewage treatment. He said that in Mumbai only nine per cent of sewage is being treated.

He was at an interactive session on the occasion of Good Governance Day as part of the 10 years of Telangana formation celebrations with the staff of the ensuing ward offices and HMWSSB managing director Dana Kishore and other department heads.

Dana Kishore said that Rs 18,000 crore was spent on drinking water and related projects in the last nine years. He said that the drinking water supply has been to ORR.

"Already 20,000 litres of drinking water is being supplied free of charge every month within GHMC limits. If the Sunkishala intake well project, which is currently under construction near Nagarjuna Sagar is completed, there will be no drinking water woes for the future generations,” he said.

Ministers Talasani Srinivas Yadav and Mallareddy, MLAs, MLCs under GHMC, mayor Gadwala Vijayalakshmi,  top officials from the municipal department, GHMC, CDMA and water board participated in the meeting.