Krishna pipeline breaches, a million gallons of water goes down the drain

30K Customers In Old City Likely To Face Water Supply Disruption: Board Official

- Mungara Sunil

Hyderabad: Even as a high-level meeting, chaired by MA&UD minister K Taraka Rama Rao with officials over supplying 20,000 litres of free water to each household was underway, nearly a million gallons of potable water has gone down the drain after a Krishna drinking water supply trunk main suffered a breach at Langar Houz around noon.

The breach occurred just 100 metres away from the main road opposite pillar number 53 of PVNR Expressway. As the pipeline burst suddenly, water spray shot to a height of over 20-feet, almost touching overhead HT lines.

Usually, the AramgharMehdipatnam stretch is chocka-block with vehicles, but on Saturday traffic was thin. Commuters who were passing on the stretch were shocked after they witnessed large volumes of water gushing on to the road. With the explosion, nearly 300 metre length of the B T road got damaged and gravel was strewn all over the place.

“Water gushed out continuously from the pipeline bursted,” Mohammad Mehraj, a shopkeeper of an apparel outlet, told TOI.

Initially, HMWS&SB officials suspected Bhagyanagar Gas Limited (BGL) had taken up earth excavation work without supervision of water board officials and it led to the pipeline getting damaged.