HYDERABAD: Old pipeline network in several habitations in Telangana poses a major challenge to the government in its mission to supply water with 100 LPCD as the benchmark.

The existing network spread over an accumulated length of about 30,000 km in hundreds of villages is of only 40 LPCD capacity. These pipelines were laid from time to time by the local panchayats.

Even the main pipes of higher size that have been laid from the water source to the village entry point are of smaller diameter compared to the size of pipes being used as part of the Mission Bhagiratha project. Officials admitted that the diameter or size of the existing distribution lines in rural areas is between 60 mm and 80 mm. As a result, there are apprehensions that there would be huge disparities in quantity of water being supplied.