Karnataka bans new borewell drilling in Bengaluru due to low groundwater levels

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The Karnataka government has banned new borewell drilling in Bengaluru due to alarmingly low groundwater levels.

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00:00It is only in fact February and you are already seeing summers kicking off in Bengaluru with

00:07temperatures going up and so there is a water crisis that is playing out in the city.

00:13Now bore wells have been banned in Bengaluru.

00:15The government has banned any new bore well drilling in the city.

00:20This because the ground water levels are at an alarming low level and so Bengaluru could

00:27face a severe water crisis in the months to come.

00:30Already it's an alarming low level and the worst of summer hasn't even hit yet.

00:34Sagaraj is joining us with more details on this.

00:37Sagar it's the same story every single year in Bengaluru of a water crisis come summer.

00:42In February we're already talking about the ground water reaching alarmingly low levels.

00:53Absolutely keeping the peak summer in the mind the Karnataka government has passed an

00:57order banning the bore well drilling across the city.

01:00Remember last year people have faced water scarcity especially when there were increasing

01:05tanker supply water across the city.

01:08Now as a precautionary measures Karnataka government have taken a decision and banned

01:12the drilling of a bore well site which will also lead for more water shortage.

01:17Keeping ground water in the mind and usage of the water during the summer the Karnataka

01:22government have taken this particular decision.

01:24Okay Sagar just stay with me even as we're talking about this water crisis in Bengaluru

01:29there's more breaking news coming in.

01:39Now it seems because of government negligence in Karnataka Krishna river water has flown

01:45into Telangana instead of helping farmers in Karnataka 1.24 DMC of Krishna water has

01:52been diverted to Telangana and it's led to outrage in Karnataka considering that it's

01:57going to be a harsh summer already we're talking about a water crisis not just in Bengaluru

02:01but in the entire state and there are questions about whether the congress government is prioritizing

02:07Telangana where remember the congress is in power there too.

02:11Farmers in places like Yadgira and Raichur are up in arms.

02:14Sagar is joining us with more details on this.

02:16Sagar was this intentional by the Sidramaya government?

02:22Well the water resource minister D.K.

02:26Shukumar has given a clarification that he has signed the papers and they have released

02:30only 1 DMC of water to Telangana and this particular decision was taken keeping the

02:36water requirements in Raichur, Yadgiri and Ballari districts where Krishna river is a

02:42main water source for all these people and in fact the BJP has warned saying that if

02:47they don't stop water flow to Telangana they have to siege the water resource department

02:52and they have also alleged that there was no any kind of orders it was just a verbal

02:57instruction oral instruction which was being given to the officers to release the water

03:01and they have released overnight the water to Telangana and they have also alleged that

03:05they didn't release the water with the during the daytime they have released in the night

03:08since the farmers will not get to know that the water has been released.

03:12Now they had protested in front of the DC office in Yadgiri, Raichur and Ballari and

03:16now they claim that the government is doing this just because there is Telangana there

03:21is a congress government in Telangana but the water resource minister DK Shukumar has

03:25categorically mentioned that you have to help Maharashtra, Maharashtra has to help Karnataka

03:29likewise Telangana should help us and we should help them then it is the sharing of water

03:34between these inter states which helps them in the future and he has also said that keeping

03:39the water requirement in the state especially in these districts Yadgiri, Raichur and Ballari

03:45has released only one TNC of water and it is not going to hamper the requirement of

03:49water in the state of Karnataka and he has made it clear that he has signed the paper

03:54and he is the one who passed the order to release the water to Telangana.

03:58All right Sagar thanks very much for joining us with those details.

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