The residents of district headquarters are experiencing peak summer in the rainy season.
The residents who were used to getting drinking water supplied daily are now facing a shortage with water being supplied once in two days and some places it is more irregular, due to the main source of drinking water for Sangareddy and Hyderabad — Manjeera Dam — going dry.
The Manjeera reservoir has to get water from Singoor which has not yet received any inflows due to lack of sufficient rains in Karnataka, which was the catchment area for the project.
To add to the woes, existing water in Singoor was diverted to Mid Manair project in Karimnagar district to save the standing crops there.
The scarcity of water in Singoor is adversely impacting the needs both drinking water and irrigation.
As on Saturday, Singoor has 517.22 m of water against the full reservoir capacity of 523.6 m. As on Saturday the reservoir had 7.591 tmcft against the full reservoir capacity of 29.917 tmcft.
“Manjeera has already dried up and hence we are supplying water once in two days.
The officials have informed us that they were making efforts to supply water from Mission Bagiratha to the district headquarters by providing a connection from Singoor reservoir.
Prasada Rao told The Hindu.
While there are heavy rains across the State here the situation is quite contrasting,” said an officer in Irrigation Department.