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Daily water supply from December 31

Staff Reporter

The supply will be for two hours, says water board Managing Director

Hyderabad: After a gap of ten long years Hyderabad is in for daily water supply.

However, to start with, only 40,000 houses will be getting this bonanza from December 31. Infrastructure in these localities is considered feasible for daily water supply.

Announcing this here on Thursday, Ministers -- Mohd Ali Shabbir and M. Mukesh Goud -- said the facility would be extended in a phased manner to the entire service area. By January 15, daily supplies would be provided to 56,500 connections, February 15 (78,000), March 15 (1.21 lakh), April 15 (1.50 lakh) and June 30 (1.17 lakh).

Apart from the twin cities the surrounding municipalities of Kukatapply, L.B. Nagar, Gaddiannaram and Sherlingampally will also get daily supplies.

Discontinued in 1997

Soon after coming to power, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajashekhara Reddy had promised to restore daily water supply to Greater Hyderabad and he had lived up to the promise, Mr. Shabbir Ali said. It was in 1997 that the daily water supply was discontinued following a spell of bad monsoons. To ensure the daily supply 526 works were proposed in the GHMC core city areas at a cost of Rs. 72 crore.

Of this 41 were completed and 302 in progress. In the surrounding municipalities 320 works were proposed at a cost of Rs. 96 crore.

These workers were intended to enhance the size of inlet connections to draw more water, to lay alternate parallel outlets to different localities from reservoirs, for strengthening of distribution network and providing additional pumping capacities, Mr. Shabbir Ali said.

At present the city was being supplied 265 mgd as against the demand of 310 mgd.

The duration of daily supply would be two hours, said HMWSSB Managing Director K.S. Jawhar Reddy.

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