The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) presently supplying water to about 125 wards of the BBMP will not sanction fresh water connections to multi-storeyed residential and commercial apartments within its limits till 2011 end.The reason they have come up with is severe water scarcity. All applications seeking fresh water connections for multi-storeyed apartment complex after May 2010 will be kept pending.
In the absence of BWSSB supply, people occupying new flats and commercial complexes will have to depend on either private tanker supply or borewells or packaged water.The BWSSB has been pumping 860 million litre per day (MLD) of water every day from the river Cavery to Bangalore since 2002. Those who buy flats in the BWSSB limits will have to take care of their need for water said Minister in charge of Banaglore water supply Katta Subramanya Naidu.
Naidu said the problem will ease by the end of next year as the work on ongoing Cauvery IV stage, II phase project will be completed. By November 2011, the project will be completed, and Bangalore will get additional 500 MLD of water. From 2012, we will start sanctioning fresh connections.However, the BWSSB will continue to sanction new connections to single unit residential building in its limits.
The reason they have come up with is severe water scarcity.The total consumers of the BWSSB was 2.90 lakh in 2002. Today, it is 6.10 lakh. Hence, there is severe scarcity of water. The people occupying new flats and commercial complexes will have to depend on either private tanker supply, borewells, Rainwater Harvesting or packaged water.
