Belagavi: The district administration has approved a Rs 1.94-crore contingency plan to provide drinking water to Belagavi city. About 65 borewells will come up within a week under the plan which has been necessitated due to deficient rainfall The plan will be implemented by utilizing the grants of Belagavi City Corporation released through the state finance commission.The delay in the onset of monsoon in Belagavi and Chandagad region of Maharashtra has created water crisis in the city limits. The storage level at Rakaskopp reservoir , one of the sources of drinking water to the city, has reached dead storage level. Adding to the woes is the fact that the reservoir has not recorded inflow, barring the pre-monsoon rain.The Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board has installed about 10 high capacity pump sets to lift water from the dead storage in Rakaskopp reservoir. The dead storage at Rakasakopp could meet the drinking water needs of the city for the next 10 days.Struggling to lift water from the dead storage, the Board has brought two 35 HP and one 50 HP capacity motor pump sets from Vijayapura to streamline water supply to the city limits. It has installed four 30 HP capacity pump sets from which nearly five to six MGD liters of water is being lifted daily. If monsoon is delayed for a week in the catchment areas under Chandagad region of Maharashtra, Belagavi will reel under severe water crisis. In such a scenario, the city could expect supply of tap water once a week which would be supplied from Hidakal reservoir, which is yet to record inflow.

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