Many apartment communities that had come out of the dependence on private water tankers after Cauvery V Stage being commissioned in 2024 are being coerced into signing long-term contracts of two years with private water tanker businesses to get water.
Karnataka has been contending that the proposed balancing reservoir-cum-drinking water project at Mekedatu in Kanakapura taluk of Bengaluru South district will not come in the way of the State releasing the stipulated quantum of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu
In view of the reduced flow in the Cauvery and the Kollidam and in anticipation of scarcity conditions, the district administration has taken up the exercise by involving Water Resources, Agriculture, and Agriculture Engineering departments