Click to play videoBangalore: Bangalore is inching towards another long and thirsty summer. If the current water shortage is any indication, then Bangaloreans should start saving up on this precious resource.
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has already cut down on water supply to various areas and it could just get worse in the coming months.
So, for Bangaloreans like Mohua Dutta there’s only one thing on her mind – water or rather the lack of it.
She lives at Bangalore's Sarjapur road, the IT corridor of the city, which boasts of many high-end apartments and villas. So, one would think, having charged so much for these apartments, the builders would have got the basics right?
“Off late it's become really acute and it's compounded by the fact that all the borewells have run dry in this area. The projects, which were planned and sanctioned by the BDA to supply Cauvery water have not started. We've been told by the builder that it is in the government's hands and they have no control,” Dutta explains.
Residents in these areas, earlier under the City Municipal Council, are dependent on private water suppliers who are making hay while the sun shines.
"It's roughly working out to be about Rs 40-50,000 of water that we are buying every month. We are at the mercy of tanker water suppliers,” says Dutta.
Bangalore gets 810 million litres per day from Cauvery, its main source of water. But the demand is 1,100 million litres. Besides, almost 30 per cent or of the supply is lost through leakage and pilferage.
The Thippagondanahalli reservoir is the only other source of water for many parts of Bangalore other than the river Cauvery.
The BWSSB used to source almost 140 million litres of water a day from this reservoir, but that has alarmingly dropped to 40 million litres per day and that's because of the degradation of the catchment area.
Water supply from this reservoir will, in all likelihood, be stopped completely by the end of this month since the water table is sinking below pumping levels.
This will make matters worse for areas in the western, northern and north-eastern parts of the city, which receive water from this reservoir. So, for now, only a good spell of rain can help ease the situation.
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