Hyderabad Borewells Dry Up and Residents Rely on Water Tankers

Many residents from the city, while stating that neither the quantity nor duration of water supply by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has decreased, pointed out that as bore water pressure was decreasing and in some places were drying up, some households were availing of supply by tankers. However, in localities where new houses have come up, the water supply has reduced drastically.

While those living in Bloomfield Ecstasy at Tellapur said that the



supply in April was as it was during the earlier months, residents of Gayatri Hills in Road No. 10, Jubilee Hills, lamented that the supply had decreased. “The water supply to our society has not decreased,” said Tellapur Neighbourhood Association (TeNA) president Ramana Eshwaragiri. However, R. Pushpa from Gayatri Hills said that what was lasting an hour’s duration has been reduced to 30 minutes. She reasoned that this was largely due to the new apartments that have been occupied in recent times.