Mangalore:  When some ministers and district leaders are speaking from housetops that Netravathi Waters should be diverted to Mandya, Hassan and Kolar, if not Bangalore, here the city in spring Season is facing Water Shortage as Netravathi Water is drying up in Thumbe vented dam area, and in 10 days there will be a dry land where the water was.

MLA N. Yogish Bhat pointed to this calamity on Sunday and urged the Congress Mayoress Gulzaar Banu Sheikh to visit Thumbe to set right matters.

He pointed out that in 2011 March, the water level was as high as 12.25 feet but now it was only 8.75 feet high. Due to absence of inflows, water level was slipping by 4″, in March 2012, and unless rains fall, there will be no water river Bhat cautioned.

Bhat claimed that he had already conducted a meeting of district officials.

AMR/MRPL dams Water supply has to be stopped immediately, and river water should be supplied to the city forthwith, he instructed.

All industries have to co-operate in foregoing their water to save Mangalore city, he pleaded.

Citizens should stop washing vehicles or watering gardens, henceforth. Some 200 borewells are being activated. Unless rains lash the hillsides and Western ghats, the city will not get more water.

MP Nalinkumar, deputy mayor Amitkala and BJP Corporators were present at the press meet on Sunday called by Bhat.

 A new vented dam work is in progress at Thumbe at a cost of Rs80 crores. People have to use water 135 liters very carefully for any use, Bhat said.