The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board bags Guinness World Record certificate for its Mega Water Conservation Pledge Campaign. Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Development Minister D.K. Shivakumar received the official Guinness World Record certificate.

Devadas TP Industry Media Special Correspondent.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, who holds Bengaluru development portfolio, received the Guiness World Record certificate from the adjudicator Swapnil Dangarikar at a ceremony in Bengaluru on behalf of the board.

The board took up  a water conservation campaign  during March 21 to 28, began with Cauvery Aarti at Sankey Tank, has set a world record for maximum number of pledges from people (5.33 Lakh) to conserve water..

The record is for conducting the world’s largest water conservation pledge campaign.

Speaking at the event, Mr. Shivakumar said that the recent water price hike taken up by BWSSB  after over a decade was an attempt to reduce the losses to the board by about ₹500 crore annually. “We are still not able to break even. But we are trying to reduce losses,” he said,

He further said that the State government was planning to supply the Cauvery water to 2 crore people in the Bengaluru region.

 “Presently, we are now providing water to newly added areas to BBMP in 2007-08 through Cauvery V Stage, he said.

Referring to Cauvery VI Stage, he said that there  are about 50 lakh people around the city, to whom we are now planning to provide Cauvery water,” for which a detailed project report (DPR) is under way.

Mr. Shivakumar also pointed out that cities like Delhi had progressed to dual piping system, with drinking water and water for other purposes being supplied separately and said that Bengaluru should also follow the same path in the future.