Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Mar 24: It is gathered that the city corporation here been thinking of cutting water being supplied to industries from River Netravati. This measure is deemed necessary to ensure that the city does not encounter a shortage of water during summer.

Sources said that the Dakshina Kannada district administration might limit the water being used by industries from River Netravati commencing from the first week of April.

Both city mayor, Diwakar Pandeshwar, and city corporation commissioner, Shanadi Ajit Kumar Hegde, have already assured the people of the city that there will not be water shortage this year. To keep this promise, the issue of cutting down water availability to industries is under consideration. A meeting is likely to be convened under deputy commissioner, Sindhu B Rupesh, within a few days, and a decision is expected to be taken there on this issue.

Thumbe dam, where a level of six metres can be maintained now as per arrangement, the water level stood at 5.71 metres on March 23. In AMR dam, water from which can be used by the city when needed, the water level went down by three cm. Currently, about 18 mgd of water from Thumbe and AMR dam is being supplied to different industries.

City corporation commissioner, Shanadi Ajit Kumar Hegde, said that the corporation has already written to the deputy commissioner seeking to revise the amount of water being supplied to industries and that the deputy commissioner is expected o hold a meeting for the purpose shortly.