Telangana government is now tapping Manjira water for its warship programme 'Mission Bhagiratha' and supply drinking water to Sangareddy and nearby districts. Thus, Hyderabad will no longer get Manjira water and the residents of Greater Hyderabad will have to depend on other sources. Twin cities have used Manjira water for nearly five decades.
In 2014 itself, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had stated that Manjira water would be utilized exclusively for irrigation and drinking water purposes after completion of the Krishna phase-III and Godavari phase-I projects.
With these two projects completed, the CM reportedly gave instructions to the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) in December last to stop Manjira supplies to the city permanently. As a result, the city residents would now have to completely depend on Krishna and Godavari water.
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