Despite widespread rains in the last one week, the reservoirs that supply water to the city have not received significant inflow. And if the reservoirs do not get adequate inflows by September end, water supply will be curtailed in many areas from mid-January or February next year. Himayatsagar has not received any significant inflows while Osmansagar has received a meagre 0.05 TMC water in the last one week.
Even the inflows into Singur and Manjira are not encouraging. Officials attribute the lack of inflows into reservoirs to both scanty rainfall and illegal constructions in the catchment areas. The five reservoirs should hold 21 TMC of water by the end of the monsoon to ensure that the Water Board can supply 340 million gallons of water every day to the city. “We are hoping Osman-sagar and Himayatsagar will get inflows by September-end and the storage increases to 1.5 TMC each in the two reservoirs,” Water Board in-charge director (technical) Sundar Ram Reddy told this correspondent. Officials are banking on the assured 11 TMC water from Nagarjunasagar.