HYDERABAD: After the successful execution of round-the-clock drinking water supply in Adikmet division, the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HWMSSB) has set into motion its plan to extend the facility to Asmanghad and Jubilee Hills divisions. The areas can benefit from 24/7 supplies by this monsoon.

"We have called for detailed project reports and once they are finalised we will be able to begin the supplies," HWMSSB Managing Director K.S. Jawahar Reddy said.

The door-to-door and reservoir-to-reservoir study, mapping the entire area and tracking the flow measurements, is cumbersome and could take three to four months.

"Implementing the round-the-clock supply plan in a new system is easy, but extremely difficult in an already existing system, more so an old one like ours," explained Director, Technical, HMWSSB, M. Satyanarayana.

Whether there are adequate reservoir storage capacities, readiness of feeder lines, strengthening the distribution network, making flow measurements and more importantly, defining an uniform extent of area for the plan are crucial elements.

"If houses on one side of the road get round-the-clock supplies and those on the other do not, there will be a hue and cry. Such mismatches have to be checked to demarcate a specific area," Mr. Satyanarayana said

Jubilee Hills with its undulations was more critical. There were five service reservoirs built by the local housing societies, making the present supplies, and the water board has to integrate them to ensure uniform and consistent flow of water round-the-clock to the entire area. "Their capacities range from 40,000 gallons to one lakh gallons and standardising supplies with such mismatches is not easy," he said.

Pilot project

In Adikmet division, several loopholes in the distribution network were plugged, including laying new pipelines, to ensure the entire customer base of 5,500 household connections there benefited. The pilot project also enabled the water board regularise several illegal connections and bring all the households into the revenue ambit. "We wanted to study the results of the Adikmet experiment and check out if we were ready for taking it to other divisions. People's readiness was also a crucial element for replicating the plan."

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