illegal water connections
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) hinted that Bangalore may face water crisis this summer. An BWSSB officials said the Cauvery tribunal award notified that, despite the water shortage in the state’s reservoirs, Tamil Nadu will be supplied Cauvery river water. The situation has became worse in the last five years. Water level [...] Continue Reading »
In Bangalore, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) successfully disconnected 120 sanitary connections and illegal water connections and recovered Rs 7.35 lakh. On the first day of the special drive, the board visited the areas of the city which are most congested. The special team in each zone visited Vasanthnagar, Kumara Park, KG Towers, [...] Continue Reading »
According to information from BMC’s hydraulic department there has not been a single FIR against illegal water connections in 2012. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation‘s (BMC) plan to lodge complaints against people taking illegal water connections does not seem to be working. In 2011, 56 police complaints were filed and in March 2011 the highest number [...] Continue Reading »
The maximum water drawn for a month in Bangalore city has been traced, however this comes as a surprising news! One of the apartment at Thanisandra near Hebbal in Bangalore city has been drawing maximum water. The apartment in Thanisandra near Hebbal has a one metered connection and draws around 44,000 litres of water every [...] Continue Reading »
Three illegal water connections were traced out by Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB). Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) was receiving complaints flowing down since few weeks in concern with water pollution issues. To ease residents of Unn Khadi from these issues immediately, GPCB gave a surprise visit to Gujarat Environment Protection and Infrastructure Company Limited (GEPIL) [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) seems to be probably upholding the silence mantra midst the residents agony for inconvenience caused in the regular water supply in Bangalore city. Residents belonging to Kammanahalli and many such areas have been lodging complaints to the water supply board since two or three months and have seek [...] Continue Reading »
Despite strict regulations groundwater levels in the city’s south and southwest districts has declined. The Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) take up the matter with Delhi chief secretary P K Tripathi who in turn directed Delhi Jal Board to probe groundwater decline. In 2010-11 only about 350 permissions were granted for borewells by the Delhi [...] Continue Reading »
The BWSSB which has booked 92 cases of water theft under its amended Water Act has the biggest fish in its net. The residents of a 13-flat apartment complex on Jayamahal main road caught siphoning off lakhs of litres of water. The apartment has 13 families that used to consume six lakh litres per month, [...] Continue Reading »
Water pilferage by people who tap into the main supply lines has turned out to be a major headache for the BWSSB. According to a rough estimate, the city has a shortage of 300 MLD (million litres per day) of water. The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board’s (BWSSB) crackdown 5,000 illegal water connections in [...] Continue Reading »
