Water cut & power cut today in Old City

💧 Water status: Osman Sagar-fed and a groundwater red zone

Old City leans on Osman Sagar, down to about 2.2 TMC, and Charminar's groundwater is over-exploited.

🚨 Alerts today

Checking today's power, water and weather alerts…

📈 Hyderabad water crisis: latest

• Oct 26 Five city reservoirs hold just 8.9 TMC combined; Singur down 81%, Manjeera 84%+ in a year. HMWSSB asks households to cut use by 20% (TOI).
• Oct 26 Pipeline works at Velimela near the ORR to link the 3,000-mm Godavari ring main with the Manjira Phase III/IV mains. Fine rice doubles to ₹90/kg; all-party drought meet set for Oct 28, 2:30 pm. CM meets Fadnavis today on raising the Tummidihatti barrage to 152 m.
• Oct 25 State to divert Godavari water to areas fed by depleting Singur and Manjira reservoirs (The Hindu). Singur had 22 days of normal supply left as of Oct 18.
• Oct 25 HYDRAA demolishes 11 of 30+ illegal borewells selling groundwater near Sunnam Cheruvu, Guttala Begumpet (Hans India).
• Oct 25 Water board declares emergency over acute shortage; over half of Telangana's 600+ mandals in drought, water left in ~500 of 6,000+ lakes (Siasat, citing irrigation dept data).
• Oct 25 Officials fear Singur, the IT corridor's source, may run dry by mid-December (~50 days); Water Board reportedly warns of shortages from Dec 15.

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