HMWSSB

The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board was constituted on 01-11-1989 under the provisions of Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Act 1989 (Act No. 15 of 1989), with the functions & responsibility to

• 1. Supply potable water including planning, design, construction, maintenance, operation & management of water supply system
• 2. Sewerage, Sewerage Disposal and sewerage treatment works including planning, design, construction, maintenance, operation & management of all sewerage and sewerage treatment works.

Highlights of Water Supply:

448 MGD water is supplied, drawn from distant sources of Krishna, Godavari & Manjeera Rivers ranging upto 200 Kms away from the city.

Water Sources of Hyderabad City

For more HMWSSB visit https://www.hyderabadwater.gov.in/en/index.php/

Water conservation Initiatives of HMWSSB

The Ground water levels of Hyderabad city are fast depleting and might become water stress city by 2020, as per the Niti Ayog report of Govt. of India in year 2018. Much prior to the Niti Ayog report, sensing the gravity of the ground water position, HMWSSB has initiated various awareness programmes on the importance of water conservation since the year 2016, viz. 100 days action plan, Jalabhagyam, Jalam-Jeevam and now WaLCalliance.

• 1. 100 days Action Plan was taken up in June 2016, prior monsoon, which focused on building Rain Water Harvesting Structures in domestic localities. Under this programme rain water harvesting structures are geo-tagged for easy identification.
• 2. Another programme titled â⿬˿Jala Bhagyamâ⿬⿢ is taken up in 2017, focusing on various non-residential premises.
• 3. In 2018, Jalam-Jeevam another series of consumer awareness programmes are designed before monsoon to promote construction of RWH structures, Non-Govt. Organizations are roped in to reach out to public and to encourage RWH. Trained civil contractors in construction of various RWH structures, brought out a website and mobile app for the citizen use with details of empanelled civil contractors for getting RWH constructed, formed Jala-varasatva committees (committees of Grand-Parents & Grand-Children) where they together involve in water conservation activities. https://jalamjeevam.telangana.gov.in/
• 4. An iconic Rain Water Harvesting Theme Park in constructed & inaugurated in 2018, spread over 1.5 acre area, a second of its kind in India, depicting live models of various Rain Water Harvesting Structures, water conservation methods, animated films, 3D short films and holographic presentations on water importance. https://youtu.be/YMGDQPLc1Es

For More Details : https://www.hyderabadwater.gov.in/en/