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With a bully monsoon successful 2025 and the sum of Cauvery V Stage achieving implicit 50% progress, the drinking h2o concern successful Bengaluru during the summertime of 2026 is expected to beryllium comfortable.
“Fortunately, determination person been bully rains successful 2025. The reservoirs of the Cauvery basin person capable h2o to supply for the metropolis during the summertime months,” said V. Ram Prasath Manohar, Chairperson, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB).
Cauvery V Stage, commissioned successful October 2024, has achieved implicit 50% sum with implicit 1.75 lakh connections utilizing up 400 MLD of water, arsenic against an allocated 775 MLD for a people of implicit 3 lakh connections. This has eased drinking h2o situation successful the outer zones and 110 villages, which were babelike connected borewells and tankers, successful the lack of piped h2o proviso from stream Cauvery, similar the remainder of the city.
“New connections nether V Stage person picked up pace, and that has eased the drinking h2o situation successful parts of the metropolis astir deed by a shortage successful a adust twelvemonth similar 2024,” Dr. Manohar said.
Many of these areas are reporting a autumn successful request for h2o tankers.
Ramesh Reddy, a h2o tanker businessman successful Mahadevapura, said that concern was dull and was improbable to prime up. “We were a stop-gap statement earlier Cauvery h2o proviso reached the area. Now, galore flat communities are dilatory taking piped h2o supply. So, the request is low,” helium said.
However, immoderate areas and flat communities proceed to trust connected borewells and h2o tankers. The outgo of a tanker of astir 12,000 litres of h2o is pegged astatine ₹1,200 successful the marketplace now.
BWSSB, similar successful 2025, volition proceed to tally the Sanchari Cauvery scheme, wherever the committee volition supply Cauvery h2o successful tankers successful areas yet to beryllium covered by V Stage.
However, residents kick that the outgo of Sanchari Cauvery h2o is nary little than a backstage tanker, and fixed the request was precocious successful 2025, they seldom came connected time. In 2025, a tanker of 12,000 litres of h2o outgo ₹1,290 nether the scheme. There is nary clarity yet arsenic to whether the terms volition beryllium revised this year.
BWSSB has commissioned the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) to survey crushed h2o levels successful the metropolis to program for the summer. “The study is expected soon,” Dr. Manohar said.
The committee has, implicit the past 2 years, filled up 40 lakes successful the metropolis with treated water, which volition hopefully assistance successful raising crushed h2o levels, helium added.
Meanwhile, the committee is continuing with immoderate of the h2o redeeming measures that it embarked connected during the crisis-rid summertime of 2024. Till date, the committee has ensured aerators are installed successful implicit 15 lakh nationalist taps, redeeming h2o worthy ₹40 crore annually, sources said.
