Mysuru: After predictions that the city population of Mysuru tends to touch 50 lakh in a few years, efforts are being made to ensure that people do not want to drink water.
Hale undavadi drinking water projects, which, after completion, will be able to pump up to 900 million liters every day are one of the initiatives that are expected to help ensure that all residents receive sufficient drinking water.
In addition to the city of MySuru, water will be supplied to 92 villages in the district and neighboring Mandya.on Thursday, Mysore MP Pratap Simeha and Chamundeshwari MLA GT Devegowda visited the project site to take stock status.
Among other things, projects, after completion, will help supply drinking water to the new layout developed in the suburbs of Mysuru by the Karnataka Housing Board, MySore urban development authority, in addition to the villages that fall under the Chamundeshwari segment.
The project was placed at a cost of RS 545 Crore, being developed at 123.7 hectares, which was 91.3 hectares obtained directly from farmers.
The project site is located along the backwaters of the Cauvery River, with 2,500 HP capacity pumps installed to pump water.
Among other things, scientists from the Indian Science Institute (IISC) are being consulted for project implementation.
A plant for treating water pumped on the site has been planned to report, from where, it will flow to the storage tank in Vijayanagar and Yadavagiri.
The work is also underway in a 22 kilomentre long pipe that will carry water from the project site to the city “when I was a minister in the government of HD Kumaraswamy-LED, a number of RS 545 Crore was allocated for the Hale undavadi project.
Then, the corpus of funds for the project was reduced to RS 350 crore.
But, if the project is not run according to its original plan, it will not function.
I speak with the Minister of Development Urban Ba Basavaraj about this, and he has agreed that the initial plan will be obeyed, “Devegowda said.
Simea, meanwhile, regretting the fact that, many villages in Mysuru’s waist for water even though the district was at home to two main reservoirs in Cauvery Basim.
“After this project is finished, we can ensure the supply of round drinking water,” he said.
MP, MLA checks working on the HALE UNDAVADI water project
