Hyderabad will not have any groundwater by 2020; same fate for 20 more cities

[Android_Halwa]

1 minute ago, Spartan said:

@Android_Halwa maak koti lo unna illu ki bore ledu...last 50yrs nunchi..no water issues..

but with the climate change and scanty rainfall..enta varaku we can depend on river water.

krishna water vastundi city ki, kaani krishna lo water levels takkuva unte cutting start aitad kada.. 

no no...

Krishna lo dead storage level increase chesinaru. so, even in the dry spell and scanty rainfall season, the minimum availability or dead storage level at Nagarjuna Sagar is nearly 180 TMC where 15 TMC is completely earmarked for Hyderabad water supply and additional 30 TMC for drinking water and needy purposes along the canals not for irrigation.

so, even with dead storage level, hyderabad is assured 15 TMC for atleast two years. as a back up, there is additional storage in Srisailam which may account for another 20 TMC during dryspells.

 

 

[idibezwada]

3 hours ago, dasara_bullodu said:

Next target Amaravati anta le

Vizag avtleduga...padmavathi full happy

[Beef]

4 hours ago, Spartan said:

Hyderabad has been listed among the 21 cities including Bengaluru, Chennai and Delhi that will run out of groundwater by 2020, according to the Composite Groundwater Management report released by Niti Aayog.

With the water resource management score in Telangana state hovering over the 50 per cent mark, a medium level score, there needs to be replenishment of groundwater. AP has scored 68, which is a high score.

Groundwater levels are falling because the extraction rates are higher than recharge rates. 

Mr Srikanth Ramakrishna, a rural water supply worker, said, “As the report stated, nearly 63 per cent of irrigation still makes use of groundwater. This needs to change.”

He said efforts to raise awareness about rainwater harvesting were futile. Making use of recycled water was also a good option, but borewells, the easy choice, is opted for, he said. Mr Ramakrishna said the capacity to treat waste water is much less than the amounted. 

 

 

The Niti Aayog report states that only 41 per cent of waste water generated in the city can be treated.

The state will begin mapping areas that are over-exploited and have critical groundwater resources to build recharge structures such as wells and reservoirs to replenish the water table. 

This year, the groundwater department noted a 0.55-metre dip in the groundwater level in the state in a year, from 9.05 metres in December 2016 to 8.50 metres in 2017. 

“Increase of concretisation and asphalt is a major cause as rainwater cannot perlocate into the ground. Instead of finishing the existing source, we should work on increasing groundwater levels,” Mr Ramakrishna said. 

The report suggested that rainwater harvesting structures need to be geo-tagged for easy monitoring. The report stated that if a levy is imposed on electricity used to extract groundwater, users would be more careful. 

Water efficiency in the agriculture sector needs to be improved as farmers use nearly five times more water to produce the same crops as done by Americans, Chinese and Israeli farmers.

A senior official at the Pollution Control Board said, “Groundwater turns useless if it is polluted, which was seen in Jeedimetla recently. Two pipelines were seen with chemicals oozing out. If the chemicals seep into the groundwater, it can adversely affect the health of residents.”

Langas for a reason 

[dasara_bullodu]

8 minutes ago, idibezwada said:

Vizag avtleduga...padmavathi full happy

Vizag ni mee Bezawadollu aath kooda peekaleru

[tables]

6 hours ago, idibezwada said:

idi pakka andhrolla kutra

I don’t think so, idi pakka creator of hyd kutra 

[idibezwada]

2 hours ago, dasara_bullodu said:

Vizag ni mee Bezawadollu aath kooda peekaleru

aina edustam...

[boeing747]

turakolla kutra

[dalapathi]

6 hours ago, Android_Halwa said:

almost 30 TMC feet from Godavari and Krishna, earmarked for Hyderabad.

andulo already Krishna 3rd phase kuda aipoindi and as you may be aware, east hyderabad is now completely dependent on Krishna water from sagar. oka 30% of the population, including their household needs.

Godavari kuda year end ki aiptundi and north hyderabad will be surplus water...additional ga two more reservoirs, one in choutappal and another in keesara each with more than 5 tmc capacity are being build to store water

himayathsagar and osman sagar will be reserve and will not be utilised as it is being used now. 

idannamata

Yellampalli water ekkuva use chesedi hyd. Ke

[Prince_Fan]

hope this turns out to be wrong 

[Android_Halwa]

1 minute ago, dalapathi said:

Yellampalli water ekkuva use chesedi hyd. Ke

Yeah, right now or atleast till few years back...almost 50-60% of hyderabad's drinking water needs used to be met by osman sagar and himayath sagar lakes.....which after 2020, the water will not be utilised from these lakes except for nearby areas and these two lakes will act as reserve storage for water

[uttermost]

34 minutes ago, tables said:

I don’t think so, idi pakka creator of hyd kutra