The foundation stone for a new water treatment plant with a capacity of 32.50 MLD was laid today by District incharge minister Satish Jarkhiholi. The new water treatment plant would be built atop hill at Basavnkoll near Mutyanhatti. Belgaum city gets 54.45 MLD water from Rakaskop and similar from Hidkal dam. The current need […]
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Water prices hiked by Belgaum corporation
The minimum charge for your water bill is now Rs. 175 per month from Rs.83 for domestic use. For Other than household use the price is 350 per month (earlier it was 160) and for commercial use the new price is Rs.700 per month (earlier it was 360). The price hike has been affected from […]
Uncertain monsoon haunts water supply
In these 10 days of July the district has not received less 10% of its normal rainfall. Until June end the rainfall deficiency was 61%. Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board which supplies water to the city, now supplies water once in 6 days. But there has been some good rainfall in the catchment […]
Belgaum now gets water once in 4 days
This is the first week of June and Belgaumites are facing an acute water shortage as the Rakaskop dam is almost dry. Now water is supplied once in FOUR days earlier it was every alternate day. The current level of water at Rakaskop is almost less than 5 feet from the previous year. The Rakaskop […]
Corporation wins award for water management
It has been over a month now that Belgaum corporation has been in the news and again for reason unwanted for. But this time its time to cheer for the Belgaum City Corporation as it was awarded the National Urban Water Award 2011 in New Delhi recently. ‘National Urban Water Award 2011′ is given in […]