HYDERABAD: As part of its water audit exercise, the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) is installing sophisticated bulk water meters in 80 of its distribution reservoirs to check the volume of water entering into them from the treatment plants.

Rs. 10 crores sanctioned

About 170 bulk flow meters would be installed in select areas on its distribution system on an experimental basis by the month end and a sum of Rs. 10 crores sanctioned for the purpose.

The exercise was to check water wastage in the distribution process and also imbalances in the water supply and corresponding revenue accrued from it, Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board Managing Director K.S. Jawahar Reddy told presspersons here on Thursday .

Illegal connections

The effort is also to gauge the impact of the large number of illegal connections making holes in the water board's revenues.

"Any discrepancies in the volume released for consumption from the reservoirs can be made out based on the revenue from a particular area. We will make section-level officials (officials of Chief General Manager and General Manager level) responsible for the losses," Metro Water Board officials maintained.

"We want to zero in on the actual volume of water being supplied from the water sources and the quantum of distribution losses. The meters will be fixed to the inlet and outlet points of the reservoirs, tabulating the real water volumes. This is one of the measures to check the huge revenue loss being suffered by the water board due to pilferage and illegal connections," they explained.

Revenue losses

According to Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board estimate, a staggering 30 per cent of its 5.3 lakh connections were illegal amounting to huge revenue losses in the city and surrounding municipalities.

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