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BANGALORE: The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has stopped supplying water from the Thippagondanahalli (T.G. Halli) reservoir to many areas in the western parts of the city. Rajajinagar, Basaveshwaranagar and Shivnagar are now being supplied water from Cauvery. The BWSSB said supply to these areas has come down as pumping from the reservoir was suspended following reports that there were red worms in the water. Since Sunday, it had introduced fish into reservoir in the hope that they will eat up the worms. "We have to wait for a day or two to find out,'' Guruprasad Baily, Chief Engineer (Maintenance), said. During a similar crisis in 2002, the board had resorted to the same measures and these were fairly successful. The BWSSB engineers are monitoring the situation and plan to visit the reservoir on Tuesday to draw water samples. Normally, the T.G. Halli reservoir contributes 50 MLD (million litres a day) of water to the city (the total supply is 860 MLD). As the water level is only 27 feet, nine MLD was being pumped, and this has been suspended. Residents of areas where worms were found in water said that for a few days the water was muddy. In many households, drinking water is being bought. "Now that the worst has happened, we hope the board will set right the matter soon,'' they said.
Fish kill
The Lake Development Authority and the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) said preliminary reports indicated that oxygen level has come down drastically in the water in Puttenahalli lake in the southern outskirts of the city where fish kill was reported last week. "We expect a detailed report from the laboratory on Tuesday,'' Shivalinge Gowda, Environmental Officer at KSPCB, said.
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