Enough water for city till June 2017: BBMP commissioner

The city won’t face any water crisis till June 2017, according to N Manjunath Prasad, the commissioner of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.

“The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) officials have informed that there is enough drinking water to meet city’s requirement till June 15. The city needs 9.84 tmc feet of water while the availability is 15.88 tmc feet,” Prasad said here on Wednesday.

He was speaking to reporters after a meeting with city MLAs and several ministers at Vidhana Soudha.

Bengaluru Development Minister K J George, who was present in the meeting said that steps should be taken for reviving waterbodies in the city. He said that Palike should look into supplying water to 110 villages brought under BBMP limits and borewells should be sunk wherever necessary.

Mayor Padmavathi said that water tanks in all the 198 wards would be repaired. She said that BWSSB should take steps to plug leakage of potable water. The mayor added that Thippagondanahalli reservoir would be desilted.

The MLAs present in the meeting sought that 10 borewells be sunk in each of 28 Assembly constituencies in the city. Minister George replied that he would approach the chief minister in this regard.