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Civic body to keep a tab on water supply in Bellary

BELLARY: The Bellary City Corporation (BCC) is taking steps to ensure proper water supply in the city.

To begin with, the civic body would keep a tab on water supply in the areas fed by the Moka reservoir and also take steps to regulate supply of drinking water, for which Rs. 24 lakh has been earmarked.

Deputy Commissioner and Administrator of Bellary City Corporation Arvind Srivastav told The Hindu here on Thursday that the water audit conducted a few months ago had revealed that about 20 to 40 per cent of water supplied by the Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board (KUWSDB), had not been accounted for in various parts of the city.

As against the requirement of 40 million litres a day, around 60 million litres of water was being supplied from the Allipur and Moka reservoirs.

Yet, there were complaints that water was being supplied once in four days. To put an end to the problem, the corporation had decided to fix nine bulk meters to measure the outflow from the over-head tanks. Water supply would be monitored by a task force. Work orders had already been placed and work would begin soon, Mr. Srivastav said.

He said that the corporation would fix meters at houses having large sumps and charge them based on the consumption.

This, he said, would fetch considerable revenue to the corporation. “We have requested the Secretary of the Urban Development Department to help improve water supply in Allipur zone. A water quality-testing laboratory is being set up in Bellary for testing the quality of drinking water being supplied by the 10 urban local bodies, at a cost of Rs. 10 lakh. The task of setting up the laboratory has been entrusted with the Karnataka State Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board in Bellary,” he said.

Mr. Srivastav said that work orders in this regard had been placed and the work was expected to be completed before November end.

The idea of setting up the laboratory was to test the quality of drinking water and to assess the extent of contamination at various places and take steps to rectify them.

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