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The Hindu
a day ago
- Science
- The Hindu
Hyderabad water board to study feasibility of automating its traditional valves
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) will take up a feasibility study of operating up to 1000 of its various valves using smart technology. Banking on the success registered in the Sanathnagar operation and management division, the Board chief K. Ashok Reddy has instructed officials to chalk out plans to conduct a study on experimental basis. The idea is to set up a control room at the head office and design a system to operate, control, and monitor the valves through a unified system. He said that the technology use should be designed so that the performance of smart meters, quantity and quality of water distributed, as well as billing details, can be linked to this system to improve operational efficiency. The Board operates over 15,000 various big and small valves in the city to supply water to consumers on a daily basis. Of them, at least 35% are operated regularly by linemen in various areas. But a majority of the valves are also on the arterial and other busy and narrow lanes in the city often causing risks to the linemen, who go from field to field to operate. The Board says that certain incidents in the past have also resulted in the loss of life and limb of its linemen. With smart valve technology, valve operation becomes an application-based operation from a phone, through Internet of Things (IOT) communication. Quality of water, quantity supplied, chlorine content, other parameters, and contamination can be monitored in real time on a dashboard. Mr. Ashok Reddy also suggested officials to install smart meters at the reservoir outlets and in areas with bulk connections so that technology can be used to bring every drop supplied into account and help conservation.
The Hindu
2 days ago
- General
- The Hindu
Hyderabad Water Board to construct 16,000 recharge pits in 90-days to augment groundwater resources
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has decided to take up a 90-day special action drive to construct 16,000 recharge pits to augment groundwater storage in the city and up to ORR limits. Managing Director K. Ashok Reddy on Friday informed that the plan is a direction from Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and is being supervised by Hyderabad district in-charge Minister Ponnam Prabhakar. He along with executive director Mayank Mittal addressed voluntary organisations working in water conservation area and chalked out a collaborative plan. In this scheme, in the first week, NGOs and organisations are tasked to identify suitable areas in the city for construction of recharge pits – injection wells, unused borewells, and rainwater harvesting pits for residential properties and apartment complexes. Following identification, a public awareness campaign is conducted in residential colonies to explain about rainwater harvesting pits, injection wells, and methods to convert defunct borewell into injection borewells. The campaign 'Intiko Inkudu Guntha' is a planned approach to augment groundwater resources and gradually reduce residents' dependence on water tankers for daily needs, particularly in the summer season, officials said. Mr. Mittal informed that the 16,000 new recharge pits will be photographed, geo-tagged, uploaded in a special mobile application and can be monitored on a dashboard to check progress and maintenance from time to time.
New Indian Express
03-07-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
Telangana Water Board collects charges, but fails to install over 6,000 AMRs
HYDERABAD: Despite collecting charges for over 6,290 Automated Meter Reading (AMR) from consumers, HMWS&SB has failed to install the meters even months after sanctioning them. According to Single Window Cell (SWC) data, consumers with pipe sizes ranging from 25 mm to 350 mm paid AMR meter charges between November 2019 and May 28, 2025. However, none of the sanctioned meters have been installed so far. Officials confirmed that HMWS&SB has collected meter costs from consumers and is obligated to complete the installation. To address this delay, HMWS&SB has now invited expressions of interest from agencies with experience in government or semi-government projects to install and maintain AMR meters for five years. The meters to be deployed must be of ultrasonic technology with GSM communication modules and include necessary fittings such as U-bends and couplings. These will be fixed at the consumer's premises. Interested agencies must have prior experience in installing at least 300 such meters and maintaining them for five years either within the HMWS&SB limits or for a similar organisation. The selected agency must set up a service centre and test-bench facility within the HMWS&SB's jurisdiction, staffed with skilled and semi-skilled personnel for plumbing, testing, and repairs. The agency must also maintain a buffer stock of 5 to 10% of meters of all sizes to allow immediate replacement of faulty units.
The Hindu
29-06-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Water Board MD says there is no threat to Manjeera barrage
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has earmarked ₹3.52 crore for urgent repair works on Manjeera barrage, including replacement of gates, ropes and components. The proposal was finalised last year, the tender process has been completed and the related agency designated for the works. HMWS&SB Managing Director K. Ashok Reddy, who, along with a senior official, inspected the infrastructure on Saturday, said the State Dam Safety Authority has submitted its assessment on Friday, and no structural threat to Manjeera barrage was found. Mr. Reddy, who inspected the barrage gates, pillars and pump houses, also instructed the construction agency for repair works to check leakage from gate two. It was stated that about 45 days would be required to carry out the work for gate replacement, during which time the water level will be kept below the minimum drawdown level. The related works were also postponed for now to avoid drinking water problems. In line with the modernisation works on Manjeera Drinking Water Project, which includes a new pipeline along with the existing phase 1 and 2 pipelines, a detailed project report for ₹600 crore was also prepared and submitted to the government, Mr. Reddy stated.
The Hindu
03-06-2025
- General
- The Hindu
HMWS&SB MD directs urgent repairs on Malakpet drains; hotel owner fined for illegally dumping waste into sewerage line
Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) Managing Director K. Ashok Reddy directed urgent repair works to remedy the drainage situation near Akbar Plaza at Nalgonda Chowrasta in Old Malakpet on Tuesday. Traffic congestion, police diversions, and public inconvenience reached alarming levels as sewage kept overflowing onto the roads over the past few days. Mr. Ashok Reddy, who conducted an on-site inspection said the severity is due to the decades-old sewerage line that is in a deteriorating state combined with the proximity of GHMCs stormwater drain and the heavy flow of traffic in the area, which made identification of the exact damage location difficult. He instructed officials for construction of a new line from Nalgonda Chowrasta to Malakpet Road Under Bridge (RUB) to check for future overflows. In addition to desilting the nearby sewerage lines and manholes, he suggested connecting multiple lines to a centralised outlet. Hotel waste into sewerage line On Tuesday, it was also found that the hotel adjacent to Nalgonda Chowrasta has illegally connected its sewerage line directly to the HMWS&SBs line to discard its daily waste, and the bulk food waste was being dumped into the manhole. This was identified to be one of the major reasons for sewage overflow and spilling onto the roads, officials said. Expressing displeasure, Mr. Reddy imposed a fine of Rs. 10,000 on the hotel owner and mandated him to construct a silt chamber within 10 days, failing which the hotel will be closed for violations and causing public inconvenience. Permanent solution Mr. Reddy called for a comprehensive study of the situation by both officials from HMWS&SB and GHMC, particularly to identify intersecting lines. He also suggested construction of separate sewerage and stormwater lines to prevent future mixing and overflows.
