{"id":110593,"date":"2026-06-30T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=110593"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:38:26","slug":"himayat-sagar-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/himayat-sagar-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Himayat Sagar Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Himayat Sagar Lake Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) recently opened the floodgates of the Himayatsagar reservoir and began releasing water downstream following increased inflows caused by rainfall in the catchment areas. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Himayat Sagar Lake<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>artificial lake <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">located <\/span><b>20 km from<\/b> <b>Hyderabad in Telangana.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was built on the <\/span><b>Esi River <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(a <\/span><b>tributary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/musi-river\/\" target=\"_blank\">Musi River<\/a>)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during the <\/span><b>rule of the last Nizam of Hyderabad.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main objective was to <\/span><b>provide drinking water<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and, at the same time, <\/span><b>save the city from floods.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capable of storing about 3.0 TMC of water, this lake was built under the supervision of engineer late Khaja Mohinuddin.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>construction <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the lake wa<\/span><b>s completed in 1927<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and was <\/span><b>named after Himayat Ali Khan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>youngest son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake is spread over an area of about 1,700 acres.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lies <\/span><b>parallel to Osman Sagar Lake.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Himayat Sagar and Osman Sagar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reservoirs provide<\/span><b> continuous water supply<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the <\/span><b>twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.\u00a0 <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/cities\/hyderabad\/2026\/Jun\/29\/hyderabad-water-supply-board-releases-1000-cusecs-from-himayatsagar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himayat Sagar Lake is an artificial lake located 20 km from Hyderabad in Telangana. 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