secunderabad despite the population nearly doubling with the development of new residential areas in marredpally sitaphalmandi padmarao nagar tarnaka lalapet mettuguda and other areas of secunderabad almost a decade ago residents here are still suffering from a shortage of drinking water as the hyderabad metropolitan water supply and sewerage board hmwssb has failed to prepare fresh proposals to enhance the capacity of existing service reservoirs and construction of new reservoirs to meet the demand problems related to drinking water supply in secunderabad have only intensified the existing service reservoirs were built in the 1960s with a capacity of 45 million litres when the manjeera water supply scheme was launched the population has increased since then and the areas are saturated said an hmwssb official officials said that the water board is unable to construct new service reservoirs and is supplying godavari and krishna water to the residents on alternate days general manager om divisonvii marredpally k ragunandan reddy said the water board has been depending on the existing infrastructure to supply water two new reservoirs have been constructed one at osmania university with a capacity of 5 million litres and another one at lalapet with a capacity of 3 million litres depending on the necessity they will be commissionedwith the commissioning of the two service reservoirs ou mettuguda tarnaka and manikeswara nagar lalapet and the adjoining residential areas would benefit he saidthough the officials have been claiming that they would supply potable water on a daily basis they cannot do it due to lack of infrastructure said sai krishna a resident of tarnaka the slums and tailend areas suffer the most as they receive water with low pressure the water board has to put in more efforts to quench the thirst of every resident drinking water sources like godavari and krishna have received good inflows due to bountiful rains and therefore the situation is manageable at present said pramod reddy a resident of lalapet