Bengaluru: The Bangalore Water Provide and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) will use robotic expertise to take care of round 11,000 public borewells in its jurisdiction.
The expertise goals to boost effectivity in managing borewells, in addition to lowering their technical failures.
“Just a few borewells within the metropolis have stopped working because of lack of upkeep and technical faults. There have been situations when the borewells have been switched on when water was not out there and the pump units have been run for longer than anticipated. In such circumstances, the borewells flip inactive,” BWSSB Chairman Dr Ramprasath Manohar V instructed DH.
The robotic expertise will permit the BWSSB to watch the state of the pump set and water stream ranges, whereas additionally permitting officers to show them on and off.
“Fixed monitoring will stop frequent breakdown of borewells and scale back inconvenience triggered to the residents,” Manohar added.
Manohar additionally directed the officers to survey the situation of borewells within the metropolis and restore defunct ones.
The BWSSB can be considering of changing defunct borewells into rainwater harvesting (RWH) buildings. “If the borewells have turned dry and we aren’t in a position to rejuvenate them, they are often transformed to RWH buildings,” Manohar mentioned.
(Printed 18 March 2024, 23:29 IST)
