GULBARGA: Drinking water supply in Gulbarga has improved with a majority of the localities connected under the piped water supply system being supplied water at least once in three days.

Deputy Commissioner Pankajkumar Pandey, who is also the Administrator of the Gulbarga City Corporation, which maintains the internal distribution of the drinking water in the city, told The Hindu here on Friday that with the pumping of 12 million gallons a day (MGD) of water from the Saradgi Barrage across the Bhima through a new pipeline laid at a cost of Rs. 45 crore drinking water supply to the city had considerably improved.

He said at least 25 of the 32 localities in the city were getting water either on alternate days or once in three days. Daily supply to the city was being reviewed and steps taken to plug leakage in the internal distribution were being taken to ensure that all houses with water connection were provided drinking water.

Mr. Pandey, who held a consultation with leaders of different organisations including former Minister S.K. Kanta to work out a strategy, said to monitor the distribution of the drinking water five teams of senior officials from the Revenue Department, City Corporation and the KUWSDB had been constituted to ensure proper distribution of the drinking water in the areas assigned to them.

The teams had also been asked to tour their respective areas and identify problems and the reason why residents were not getting water. They would submit their recommendations by May 13, which would be studied and action taken accordingly, Mr. Pandey added.

Major bottleneck

He said the missing links in the main pipelines of the internal distribution network was one of the major bottlenecks in finding a permanent solution to the drinking water shortage in the city. The KUWSDB officials here had conducted a preliminary exercise of identifying the missing links and extending the piped water supply to other areas and new layouts.

The situation in rural areas, except for a serious shortage of drinking water in Aland taluk where 13 villages were being provided drinking water through tankers, was far better and in places like Chincholi drinking water was being provided twice a day, he added.

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