Mangalore City Corporation Resorts to Water Rationing After Three Years

Mangalore City Corporation Resorts to Water Rationing After Three Years

Mangalore City Corporation took to water rationing in the city from Friday after a gap of three years since the water storage level at the Thumbe vented dam, built across the Netravathi coming down. To tide over the situation, the corporation has been pumping the river water from the downstream of the dam into the dam for over a week now using 13 pumps.

With the civic body resorting to supplying water on alternate days (instead of daily) from Friday, the existing storage in the dam would be enough to meet the demand till May-end.Now, the corporation is pumping 80 MLD (million litres a day) of water from the dam to the city. There were about 117 active borewells in the city but that water could not be relied upon for mass supply this time due to low yield in summer. The Deputy Commissioner will take a decision on increasing the duration of rationing after reviewing the situation after some days, the engineer said.

The corporation last resorted to water rationing in 2019 when there was acute shortage in the river water. There was no rationing during summer in 2020, 2021, and 2022, as there was inflow in the river due to summer rain on the Western Ghats and its foothills.