Mysuru civic body plans to eliminate water supply through borewells

Over 400 borewells decommissioned so far, another 300 to be decommissioned by January 2023

Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has plans to eliminate drinking water supply through borewells across its jurisdiction by January 2023.

The civic body has already decommissioned about 400 borewells in Mysuru, and has plans to decommission about 300 more in the coming months.

But, it will retain around 300 borewells as a back-up in case of any emergency, besides to meet water requirements of gardens and parks.

MCC Commissioner Lakshmikanth Reddy said that decommissioning of existing borewells will also mean augmenting the existing piped water supply by about 20 MLD per day.

Civic officials went for a spot visit on November 17 to review the progress of the work at Bidaragodu near Nanjangud where a project to draw raw water from the Kabini river has been taken up, and is already supplying 60 MLD of water to the city. Mr. Reddy said work is under way to augment water supply from Kabini from 60 MLD to 120 MLD.

 Krishnaraja MLA S.A. Ramdas, who was part of the team that visited Bidaragodu, said the project was working at 50% of the installed capacity, and pumping about 60 MLD of water. Once the second phase is completed, supply will be augmented by 60 MLD. This will neutralise the reduction in supply owing to decommissioning of the borewells.

The MCC Commissioner said there is no problems with regard to availability of water as far as Mysuru is concerned, and borewells are supplying about 20 MLD of water in various parts of the city.