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For the archetypal summertime successful galore years, reliance connected h2o tankers has abated successful Bengaluru. Coverage of piped proviso of Cauvery stream h2o successful 110 villages and the Sanchari Cauvery scheme, wherever Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) is supplying Cauvery stream h2o done tankers, person done the trick.
“More than 70% of the buildings successful this portion of the municipality person present got Cauvery connections. This has deed our concern by much than 60% successful galore pockets. We person mislaid regular customers, particularly apartments, who utilized to trust mostly connected america for their h2o supply,” said Ramesh Reddy, a h2o tanker businessman from Doddanekkundi, serving Mahadevpura for implicit a decennary now.
Jagadish Reddy, a nonmigratory of Varthur, said portion the h2o being supplied from BWSSB was irregular and not capable yet, Sanchari Cauvery had stabilised the prices of h2o tankers successful the market. BWSSB is providing 12,000 litres of h2o for ₹1290.
“There person been times erstwhile we utilized to wage implicit ₹2,000 adjacent for a 6,000 litres tanker of water. That benignant of harassment by the tanker ‘mafia’ has surely stopped. Even if we extremity up buying a fewer tankers from backstage players, they are besides forced to supply astatine the aforesaid rates,” helium said.
Good coverage
Outer zones of the erstwhile Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), particularly 110 villages that were added to the city’s civic limits successful 2007, got piped h2o proviso lone successful 2024 done Cauvery V Stage. “While the Board aims to supply 3 lakh connections by 2028, a survey of these areas person revealed determination are galore bare plots and determination are an estimated 1.8 lakh buildings today. Of them, the Board has already provided connections to 1.15 lakh buildings and different 30,000 connections are nether process,” said V. Ram Prasath Manohar, Chairman, BWSSB.
To capable the gaps, the Board started the Sanchari Cauvery strategy successful May 2025. Since then, the Board has delivered implicit 30,000 tankers of h2o earning a gross of implicit ₹5 crore till April 2026. “We person added 50 much tankers this summer, taking the full tankers moving the strategy to implicit 150,” Dr. Manohar said.
Water proviso to beryllium augmented
However, concerns stay with h2o proviso successful Cauvery V Stage. “Both frequence and unit of the h2o proviso is low. Even though they merchandise h2o 2 times a week, BWSSB is not capable to conscionable our afloat h2o needs, forcing america to proceed to trust connected h2o tankers,” said Kochu Shankar, a nonmigratory of Horamavu, adding that his country is not being served by Sanchari Cauvery strategy either arsenic it is acold distant from the nearest Ground Level Reservoir.
Chandrappa, a h2o tanker businessman from Bellandur, said a fewer regular customers relied connected them due to the fact that 1 cannot get Sanchari Cauvery tankers delivered arsenic and erstwhile needed. A tanker of 12,000 litres is being sold astatine astir ₹1,400 and a 6,000 litre tanker astatine ₹800-₹900.
Addressing these concerns, Dr. Manohar said the Board was augmenting h2o proviso nether Cauvery V stage. “We had been drafting lone 350 Million Litres a Day (MLD) of h2o nether V Stage till now. We are present augmenting it to implicit 400-450 MLD now. We besides mean to proviso h2o thrice a week successful immoderate of these areas,” helium said.
Cauvery V Stage tin gully up to 775 MLD from the stream Cauvery.
