Cauvery V Stage achieves over 50% coverage, easing summer drinking water availability in Bengaluru

Cauvery V Stage surpasses 50% coverage, improving summer drinking water supply in Bengaluru, easing the water crisis for residents.

With a good monsoon in 2025 and the coverage of Cauvery V Stage achieving over 50% progress, the drinking water situation in Bengaluru during the summer of 2026 is expected to be comfortable.

“Fortunately, there have been good rains in 2025. The reservoirs of the Cauvery basin have sufficient water to provide for the city during the summer months,” said V. Ram Prasath Manohar, Chairperson, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB). 

Cauvery V Stage, commissioned in October 2024, has achieved over 50% coverage with over 1.75 lakh connections using up 400 MLD of water, as against an allocated 775 MLD for a target of over 3 lakh connections. This has eased drinking water crisis in the outer zones and 110 villages, which were dependent on borewells and tankers, in the absence of piped water supply from river Cauvery, like the rest of the city.

“New connections under V Stage have picked up pace, and that has eased the drinking water crisis in parts of the city most hit by a shortage in a dry year like 2024,” Dr. Manohar said. 

Many of these areas are reporting a fall in demand for water tankers.

Ramesh Reddy, a water tanker businessman in Mahadevapura, said that business was dull and was unlikely to pick up. “We were a stop-gap arrangement before Cauvery water supply reached the area. Now, many apartment communities are slowly taking piped water supply. So, the demand is low,” he said.