No foreseeable signs of water scarcity in DK this summer: Min

Mangaluru: There are no foreseeable signs of water scarcity in the coming summer across Dakshina Kannada. The district administration in conjunction with the panchayat raj department has already taken stock of the situation at a review meeting recently, and will periodically keep reviewing the water situation based on which future decisions will be taken, said Kota Shrinivas Poojari, minister for fisheries and religious endowment.
Interacting with the media on Sunday, Poojari, also district minister, said there is steady inflow of water into Thumbe vented dam, the main source of potable water for this coastal city. The administration is maintaining water at a level of six metres at the dam, and excess water is being allowed to overflow from the vented dam, he said. The survey to determine the land that will be submerged if the water level is raised to 7 metres too is under way, he said.
Deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh said state chief secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar, who visited the vented dam recently, too has suggested that the district administration and Mangaluru City Corporation maintain the water level at its present height of six metres. As things stand now, we do not foresee any immediate water scarcity even as summer is approaching, she said, basing this optimistic assessment on continuing inflow into the vented dam.
Noting that the district administration is carrying out a survey to determine the extent of land that will be submerged if the water level is raised by an additional metre, Sindhu said another road barrage-cum-vented dam that the minor irrigation department is constructing at Adyar, downstream from the Thumbe vented dam, will further augment water availability. This barrage is expected to be ready in the coming two years, and tenders for it have been finalised, she said.