Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board along with Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has decided to impose heavy fines on persons who indulge in waste water. Against the backdrop of 50 million gallons of water wastage and Rs 700 crore annual electricity bills, the water board chief have instructed officials to prepare guidelines for imposing heavy fines for wasting water in the city.
He asked the corporation and HMWS&SB officials to make field levels inspections to identify the types of water wastage and decided penal amounts accordingly.
The penal amounts would be around Rs 25,000 for water wastage.
According to highly-placed sources in the corporation, as of now there only penal amounts are arbitrary and no set guidelines for the penalising the for leaving water on roads or wasting.
The water wastage has been not only denting the HMWS&SB’s effort to supply interrupted water supply during the crisis but also damaging the city roads severely. The civic body has now asked the committee of engineers to prepare a set guidelines for the damage of roads for allowing water on them by the residents and instructed the to check the amount of water leaked apart from 50 million gallons a day (MGD) which has been leaked through pipeline damages on regular basis.
A senior GHMC official said that a minimum of `25,000 will be imposed on the citizens for water waste which will also damage the city roads.
He said that the civic body commissioner Mr Dana Kishore has asked to prepare set guidelines for imposing fines on the road damages and water wastage.
The official said that the citizens have been wasting drinking water worth Rs 200 crore and eventually damaging roads Rs 300 crore during every year. He said that in order curtail the negligence and make accountable the corporation chief has asked the committee of the engineers to prepare the penal amounts based on the violations.
