Bangalore Water Supply & Sewerage Board [Bwssb] — miss using water for supply

Address:

7th main 2nd block jayangara, 560011

Dear sir,

Ref: rapid depletion of water table by mr narayan reddy, owner of vijayalakshmi bore wells, #35, 7th main road jayanagar 2nd block bangalore 11.

We, the residents of 2nd block jayanagar area are facing multilple issues due to excess commercial sale of ground water by ms vijayalakshmi bore wells.

1. First and foremost being rapid depletion of ground water table - in the past 6 -7 years mr narayan reddy has dug multiple bore wells in his house many of them going to great depths of 900 to 1000 feet below, and has uptill now 20, 000 lts storage tanks in his compound. The motor runs almost whole day and night disturbing the neighbours resting times.

Recently, he has procured 6 more storage tanks of 7500lts each ready to be installed.
Totally he can store 65000 lts of water at any given point of time and am sure one can imagine how many lakhs (1.2 lakhs) of water can be sold per day.

Already the water levels have gone done drastically in the neighbourhood in both open and bore wells. Few weeks ago in 4th cross, 7th main road water table was reached at 300 feet, while few days ago in the same cross, at a different site just about 100mts apart water was available at 800 feet depth only, hence am sure you will be able to asses the water scarcity because of depletion of nature's most gifted source.

According to karnataka's ground water protection of source of drinking water act 1999, bore wells should be atleast 500mts apart, but mr narayan reddy has bored more than 4 to 5 wells within his compound since the past 6 -7 years, which is against the law as you are much aware of.

As lalbagh lake is just a few feet away, we are sure that will dry up too sooner than later.

2. Frequent bottlenecks in front of his house, due to improper parking of his water tankers, creates repeated traffic jams and trouble the day to day commuters.

3. Continuous water loading overnight disturbs the neighbourhood.

4. Inspite of multiple discussions nothing much has been done to prevent damage to the neighbour's footpath, which occurs due to the water tankers hitting it and continuous dripping of water from the tankers.

5. His customers park in front of the neighbour's house and his workers are just silent spectators and never object. Many a time his workers clean their vehicles in front of the neighbour's house and dirty the same - waste cloth, cigarette butts, tea cups etc.

6. Although he has been told many a time he has not obliged and continues to cause extreme inconvinience to the whole neighbourhood residents. As of now many written complaints have been submitted bt the residents to bbmp and bwsssb offices, but to no avail.

7. More importantly as this is a residential area, using own residence for commercial purpose is against the law.

Hence, we sincerely request the concerned authorities to look into this grievous, harmful
Matter as soon as possible and do the needful to provide justice, peace and tranquillity to the residents.

We want your help to save water for our future generations too.

Regards

Residents of 7th main road, jayanagar 2nd block bangalore 11.