Hyderabad may get daily water supply by year end: KTR

The city may get daily water supply by year end if it gets bountiful rains this monsoon, municipal administration and urban development (MA&UD) minister K Taraka Rama Rao said.

“I had given assurance of providing daily water to the city during the last assembly session,“ he told the media after inaugurating a three million litre capacity ground level service reservoir (GLSR) at Nallagandla at GHMC Serilingampally circle on Thursday . The Hyderabad



Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has taken up construction of 56 reservoirs and laying 1,800 km length water pipeline in 11 GHMC peripheral circles.

The HMWS&SB will complete 46 reservoirs by May , while the remaining might be ready by August September. Once these 56 reservoirs get commissioned, nearly 40 lakh people in the GHMC peripheral circles will benefit as the HMWS&SB might provide one lakh new connections.