Reservoir to meet water needs of 52 bastis in Borabanda and Rahmathnagar inaugurated
Minister for Transport and BC Welfare Ponnam Prabhakar and Union Minister for Coals and Mines G. Kishan Reddy on Saturday inaugurated the ground level storage reservoir at SPR Hills in Jubilee Hills Constituency. The three-million-litre capacity reservoir built at a cost of ₹5.70 crore will address the drinking water needs of 52 bastis in Borabanda and Rahmathnagar areas. Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) Managing Director K. Ashok Reddy said that the high-altitude areas had been facing issues, with colonies reporting low pressure and supply during the night and even no supply of water for up to three days sometimes. The reservoir will now resolve all those issues and ensure supply of water every alternate day, he said. Recalling the agitations for regular water supply by the residents of Borabanda and Rahmathnagar, Mr. Kishan Reddy congratulated them and noted that Hyderabad as a rapidly growing city needs more water. However, he observed that there had been no new allocation of water supply to the city in the last 10 years. Claiming that the …

