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Hyderabad water reservoirs to be purified

Four STPs approved for this purpose

he historic Osmansagar and a century, are set to be purified channels to ensure water quality,
Himayatsagar reservoirs, of untreated sewage and water according to a senior water board
which have provided pollution. official. The state government has
Tdrinking water for over already abolished GO 111 in 2022,
The Hyderabad Metropolitan
Water Supply and Sewerage Board to ensure that the water quality of
(HMWSSB), which oversees the these twin reservoirs will remain
reservoirs, proposed a decision unaffected.
to construct four decentralised Moreover, the government has
sewerage treatment plants pledged to make all possible efforts
(STPs), capable of processing 20 to enhance the water quality, as
million liters a day (MLD). The outlined in the GO issued by the
municipal administration and urban MA&UD. Earlier, the government
development (MA&UD) wing has had ordered industries, hotels,
given the approval for the STPs, residential colonies, and other
for which a budget of ₹82 crore has establishments within a 10 km
been allocated. radius of the Full Tank Level (FTL)
The four STPs will be positioned not to pollute the twin reservoirs,
at various locations around the emphasising the need to safeguard
reservoirs, along with diversion the catchment areas.

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