HYDERABAD: A mega water supply project at the extended areas of the ‘Outer Ring Road’ (ORR) villages, beyond Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), is under the active consideration of the Municipal Administration & Urban Development (MA&UD).This mega drinking water project will provide water to a population of nearly 10 lakhs, spread across Maheshwaram, Rajendrenagar, Shamshabad, Medchal, Hayathnagar, Ibrahimpatnam, Saroornagar, Shamirpet, Keesara, Quthbullapur, Ghatkesar Ramachandrapuram and Patancheru mandals.The demand for water supply has shot up with several villas, gated communities and mega housing projects, located at the extended areas, cropping up in the 12 mandals in recent times.After Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao gave his consent to implement the project, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) knocked on the doors of MA&UD and submitted a detailed project report (DPR) for financial assistance.“Around Rs 890 crores will be required to implement the water supply project in the extended areas of the ORR villages.For this, the water board will have to lay a 1,200 kilometres long water supply network with inlet and outlets, to ensure uninterrupted water supply,” sources at HMWS&SB told TOI.Apart from the water lines, the water board will also construct 15 service reservoirs with 30 million litres capacity in total, to meet the demands of all the villas, gated communities, and newly emerged residential colonies, he said.“As the water board’s jurisdiction has been extended within ORR and beyond GHMC, we have already provided infrastructure in 190 villages to facilitate drinking water under ORR Phase-I. Now , we have decided to provide potable water to the newly constructed villas, individual homes and also to commercial spaces around the city, under ORR-Phase-II,” a senior HMWS&SB official said.“Once the administrative sanction is cleared, tenders will be floated . The target is to complete the water supply project by the end of 2020 end,” the official said.