HMWSSB to ensure every household applying for water connection has rainwater harvesting structures

Towards this, a special drive under the MA&UD Principal Secretary, Dana Kishore will be taken up on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti.

Hyderabad: Towards conserving water and recharge of ground water, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) has decided to focus on ensuring every household that has a water connection or applies for a connection has a Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) structure.

Towards this, a special drive under the MA&UD Principal Secretary, Dana Kishore will be taken up on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti.

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The water board will provide required technical assistance with qualified geologists to set up these water conserving structures, a press release said. According to government regulations, construction of RWH is mandatory in houses built on an area of more than 300 square meters and it is a pre-requisite for providing permission for drinking water tap connection.

On the occasion of World Water Day, the water board has come up with an application for the survey of RWH. In the first phase, it was decided to inspect around 42,784 premises of housing societies and as part of this, as of September 18, a total of 25,578 premises have been inspected. Of these surveyed premises, 12,446 premises were found to have the structure and 13,132 premises did not have them.

The water board has also decided to charge double the amount from January 2025 from customers who book water tankers without constructing additional pits in their house premises.