Fast depletion of water in the Nizamsagar project, which is considered the lifeline of the district, is posing a challenge to the administration.
There is hardly any water in the reservoir for drinking water purposes, let alone for cultivation in the current rabi. As of now, the reservoir contains just 1.5 tmcft of water as against some 2.5 tmcf this time last year.
With the lack of adequate quantity of water and absence of any scope for drawing water from the Singur balancing reservoir upstream river Manjeera, authorities are keeping fingers crossed.
That apart, the other sources of drinking water for the district headquarters - Masani and Manchippa, have also gone dry.
The Masani has gone bone dry while the water level in the Manchippa hardly suffices for a few days. Alisagar has just 65 tmcft as against its total of 304 tmcf, which will be enough for just ten days, according to Mr. Rasheed, Assistant Executive Engineer, Municipal Corporation of Nizamabad.
He says that the high-level committee in its review has decided to release 0.50 tmcf water from the Nizamsagar project by February 20 and unless water is released from the NSP by that time, there will be an acute problem for the drinking water.
According to G. Suresh, Deputy Executive Engineer, NSP, there is no possibility of getting water from the Singur which contains about 8.9 tmcf at present unless a decision is taken at the Government level. Whatever water was preserved in the NSP was meant only for drinking water purposes and with which three major tanks - one each at Banswada and Bodhan, besides Alisagar, could be filled.
Few other tanks can also be filled with the NS water en route the 100-odd km. long canal.
In view of little quantity of water available in Alisagar and other reservoirs, the civic body is hesitating to supply the required amount of water to residents every day.
