BENGALURU: Water supply across many areas of the city was affected due to power tripping at the Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board’s main pumping station at Thorekadanahalli (T K Halli) in the early hours of Wednesday.
BWSSB has now decided to approach Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) to seek uninterrupted power supply to its three main pumping stations.
According to a top BWSSB official, the T K Halli pumping station suffered power disruption between 3 am and 4 am. The main pumping station of T K Halli and the intermediate pumping stations of Tataguni and Harohalli pumping nearly 1,350 million litres of Cauvery water daily across a distance of 100 km to the city.
BWSSB Chief Engineer, Maintenance, Kemparamaiah said, “Due to power disruption at the T K Halli pumping station today, water supply was affected for as about half an hour in certain parts to many hours in other areas. We will write immediately to KPTCL to ensure uninterrupted power supply at all our pumping stations.”
Whenever pumping comes to a halt at these massive pumping stations, it takes half-an-hour to an hour to restart each one of them.
There was severe water disruption in some areas in the North and North Eastern parts of the city as a booster pumping station at Srikanthakutte suffered three interruptions throughout the day. Basaveshwara Nagar,
Kamalanagar, parts of Rajajinagar, Mahalakshmi Layout, Vijayanagar, Nagarbhavi and parts of Kengeri bore the brunt.
Power Crisis: Situation To Get Better from This Week
Bengaluru, which has been experiencing power outages for the last three days due to a combination of factors, is expected to fare better in the coming days.
Speaking about the same, Additional Chief Secretary (Energy) P Ravikumar said, “We are managing to keep it under control. Things are really not that bad and we have refrained from load shedding during the evenings. By the day after tomorrow, the situation will definitely improve.” Water has been released to RTPS, where three units had been shut down due to shortage of water.
Ravikumar said that water would reach RTPS by Thursday morning and the units could resume power generation after that. Ravikumar however declined to provide details about power generation at Sharavati Hydel Station.