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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengaluru braces for dry days as water shortage looms large -Aparajita Ray

Bengaluru braces for dry days as water shortage looms large -Aparajita Ray

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published Published on May 7, 2017   modified Modified on May 7, 2017
-The Times of India

BENGALURU: It's been a rough few weeks for Bhagya M, a homemaker in Bhadrappa Layout near Hebbal in north Bengaluru. Since the beginning of April, water is being supplied to her home just once a week. "Earlier, we received Cauvery water twice a week. Also, the time keeps changing and we have to wake up at odd hours to fill our cans. It's impossible to manage with so little. We have to get water from tankers, and pay through the nose for it," said Bhagya, adding that her children had taken to stocking up on water in their colleges to tide over the crisis.

The condition is far worse for the nearly 30,000 residents of Devarajeevanahalli (DJ Halli) near Frazer Town in east Bengaluru. With Cauvery water being supplied just once in a fortnight, storage has become a huge problem for the residents. "We are buying large pots to store water. Since large vehicles cannot enter the roads in our area, we can't even rely on tankers," said Uday Shankar, a social worker and resident of DJ Halli. The situation is no better in other areas of east Bengaluru such as Pulakeshinagar, Viveknagar, Muslim Colony , etc, where residents are forced to travel long distances to fetch drinking water. With reservoirs drying up, and mercury levels soaring, the prospect of all households in the city receiving Cauvery water every alternate day seems bleak.

Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), which supplies water to two-thirds of the city, is getting 1,300 million litres of water every day from the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) dam in Mandya, though it is entitled to 1,450 million litres per day (MLD).

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The Times of India, 7 May, 2017, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/bengaluru-braces-for-dry-days-as-water-shortage-looms-large/articleshow/58556324.cms


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