GUNTUR : Bapatla district administration is gearing up to provide sufficient drinking water to all villages from Nagarjuna Sagar Project, addressing water scarcity during summer. According to officials, the reservoir has 5.8 TMC water and the current water level is at 513 feet while the dead storage is at 510 feet.
Due to deficit rainfall, the water levels dwindled at Nagarjuna Sagar project, which is the main source for drinking water in the erstwhile Guntur district. Following this, only 0.44 TMC water will be released from NSP on April 8 to fill 138 summer storage tanks in Bapatla. Out of which, 0.16 TMC water will be utilised to fill 52 storage tanks under Krishna South Delta region, and 0.05 TMC water to fill water tanks under Gundlakamma delta region. The officials are making all necessary arrangements to finish the repair works by April 8 to prevent water wastage.
District Collector P Ranjit Bhasha recently held a review meeting and took stock of the current situation at the constituency wise. In Vemuru constituency, as many as 159 villages are dependent on borewells and filter beds for drinking water.
Out of 133 villages in Bapatla constituency, 93 villages are dependent on borewells, while 101 villages in Addanki are receiving water through summer storage tanks. As many as 83 villages out of total 143 in Parchur are getting water from summer storage tanks, and the remaining through NSP, and irrigation canals.
A total of 63 villages in Chirala constituency are getting water from lakes and water tanks, and only one village has water issues.
A special action plan has been prepared to provide water to the villages which do not have summer storage tanks. As part of it, borewells and hand pumps are being arranged in over 150 villages.
The district is divided into 750 blocks, and panchayat-level committees will be set up to ensure sufficient drinking water is provided to all constituencies in the district, Collector said.
Special action plan prepared for summer
A special action plan has been prepared to provide water to the villages which do not have summer storage tanks. The district is divided into 750 blocks, and panchayat-level committees will be set up to ensure sufficient drinking water is provided to all constituencies