Hyderabad: Drinking water supply in Hyderabad which was to improve by April 15 will take another few days owing to pending linking works. The Hyderabad Water Board claimed supply would improve by the third week of April. With the trial already on, colonies in Malkajgiri received water supply on Tuesday.

According to the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Board, some work of linking the Krishna Phase III with phase I and II is pending and the total supply of 45 million gallons per day of drinking water is likely to be allocated in the third week.

The city witnessed a major shutdown on April 4 to complete works on the project. Currently, works are going on at Kodandapur while in Osmansagar, the drinking water source for the Board is giving only 15 MGD water instead of the normal 25 MGD.

All the merged municipalities are facing acute water shortage, where many areas get water supply once in 10 days and several only depend on packaged drinking water.

However with the linking of phase III, about two million gallons of water per day from the project will be supplied to division one, mostly catering to the Old City. Areas like Alwal and Malkajgiri, where water supply is sparse, will get an additional five million gallons a day, while Uppal and Kapra areas will get four million gallons a day more from the new source.

The water supply is to improve once the project is fully operational, claim water board authorities.