Elected representatives from Mangalore region have hardly made an effort to bring water to the city from Lakhya Dam which is not in use in Kudremukh, said some officials in the Mangalore City Corporation.
Lakhya Dam, built by the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd. (KIOCL), could stand as the major alternative source of drinking water to the city after Netravathi, they said.
It was not proper on part of the civic body to entirely depend on Netravathi when consumption of water was increasing in city because of development, they said. An official said that since the dam was on a higher plane than Mangalore, water can be supplied to the city through gravitation pull. The corporation need not depend on the existing supply line laid out by the company from Kudremukh to Panambur for the supply. It could lay a new pipeline via Karkala, Moodbidri to reach Vamanjoor. The former Mayor M. Shankar Bhat, during whose tenure a move to approach the Supreme Court was initiated, told The Hindu that the city corporation had impleaded in a petition before the court with regard to drawing water from Lakhya dam.
