Chennai:
In a bid to ensure water security during the dry days, Water Resource
Department is planning to shift the water in Poondi and Cholavaram
reservoirs to Red Hills as well as Chembarambakkam reservoirs so that
the evaporation is minimised and water can last longer.
A Water Resources Department source told Express that the plan to
trasnfer water from the Poondi reservoir to Red Hills and
Chembarambakkam was taken as Poondi has a huge water-spread area as
such the evaporation of water would happen faster when compared to
Poondi.
It is learnt that 150 cusecs of water will be pumped from Poondi
reservoir into Red Hills and Chembarambakkam from Monday onwards.
This also comes in the wake of state receiving on an average 500
cusecs of Krishna Water from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.
The water resource department official also said that water from
Cholavaram reservoir, which has a dead storage of 105 million cubic
feet, would be transferred to Red Hills on Monday. "It was decided on
why to waste this much amount of water as it could quench the thirst
of the city for four days. So we are now cleaning the vegetation along
the canal linking Red Hills with Cholavaram so that the water does not
get wasted," the official said.
The official said that currently, the dour reservoirs supplying water
to Chennai has a storage of 2.8tmc feet of water which could last for
three months. The city was facing water crisis due to failure of
monsoon in the catchment area. However, neighbouring Andhra Pradesh
came to its rescue by promising to release additional 3TMC feet of
Krishna water till the next two months during the 43rd Liaison
Committee Meeting held in Hyderabad between the chief secretaries of
both the states.
In a bid to ensure water security during the dry days, Water Resource
Department is planning to shift the water in Poondi and Cholavaram
reservoirs to Red Hills as well as Chembarambakkam reservoirs so that
the evaporation is minimised and water can last longer.
A Water Resources Department source told Express that the plan to
trasnfer water from the Poondi reservoir to Red Hills and
Chembarambakkam was taken as Poondi has a huge water-spread area as
such the evaporation of water would happen faster when compared to
Poondi.
It is learnt that 150 cusecs of water will be pumped from Poondi
reservoir into Red Hills and Chembarambakkam from Monday onwards.
This also comes in the wake of state receiving on an average 500
cusecs of Krishna Water from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.
The water resource department official also said that water from
Cholavaram reservoir, which has a dead storage of 105 million cubic
feet, would be transferred to Red Hills on Monday. "It was decided on
why to waste this much amount of water as it could quench the thirst
of the city for four days. So we are now cleaning the vegetation along
the canal linking Red Hills with Cholavaram so that the water does not
get wasted," the official said.
The official said that currently, the dour reservoirs supplying water
to Chennai has a storage of 2.8tmc feet of water which could last for
three months. The city was facing water crisis due to failure of
monsoon in the catchment area. However, neighbouring Andhra Pradesh
came to its rescue by promising to release additional 3TMC feet of
Krishna water till the next two months during the 43rd Liaison
Committee Meeting held in Hyderabad between the chief secretaries of
both the states.
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