Due to the serious water scarcity across North Karnataka districts, water collected in reservoirs will be utilised only for drinking purposes, till quantum of rainfall increases, in-charge Regional Commissioner Nitesh Patil said in Belagavi on Thursday.
He also gave certain instructions to officials and engineers in charge of all reservoirs in the region at a meeting in his office.
Mr. Patil said that the inflow at some of the reservoirs has slightly increased in the last few days due to rainfall in Maharashtra. But it is not adequate, he noted. He asked officials to release water from the Dhupadal weir on the Ghataprabha till the water level in the dam fell to 2008.5 ft.
