Hyderabad: The Krishna River Management Board has ordered release of 9 TMC ft of water from the “balanced storage” available at Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar dams.
With withdrawal of water at much below the stipulated levels, the Hyderabad Metro Water Board will now be forced to use emergency pumps to meet the daily drinking water needs of the city of around 270 million gallons.
Executive director of the Water Board K. Satyanarayana said, “Telangana engineer-in-chief C. Muralidhar had advised us to be ready to operate the emergency motors for pumping water to Puttamgandi as the water level at Nagar-junasagar was likely to go further down as per the orders of the KRMB.”
The KRMB in its orders stated: “Considering the ultimate level of 765 ft for Srisailam and 499 ft for Nagarjunasagar dam, it is assessed that about 10 TMC ft of water will be available for any eventuality of delayed monsoon and also for utilisation in June 2016.”
