Yettinahole project to be inaugurated on Friday

Visvesaraya Jala Nigam Ltd. has maintained that there will be no shortage to fulfil the primary objective of providing water for people in drought-prone districts under the Yettinahole Integrated Drinking Water Supply Project. Many environmentalists, however, have often raised doubts over the availability of water for the project.

The project has been designed to lift 24.01 tmcft of water from the west-flowing streams in the Western Ghats.

VJNL managing director Sannachittaiah said the project involved supplying water for drinking purposes and filling 527 tanks. Of the total 24.01 tmcft, as much as 14.056 tmcft would be utilised for drinking water purposes in seven districts. The remaining 9.953 tmcft to recharge the groundwater table by filling tanks up to 50%.