The State government was resorting to “jugglery of words” when speaking about the Netravati diversion project and the Yettinahole project, member of the Western Ghats Task Force B.M. Kumaraswamy said here on Wednesday.

Speaking to The Hindu here on the sidelines of a programme organised by the task force and the Department of Forests, Mr. Kumaraswamy said the government was denying that there was any attempt to divert the Netravati, and instead it was saying that it would supply drinking water to Kolar, Chickballapur, Chitradurga and Bangalore Rural districts from the Yettinahole, a tributary of the Netravati, he said.

Until three years ago, several parts of the city received water only for a couple of hours a day, activists say. But the situation has improved now for different reasons.

President of the Nagarika Hitarakshana Samithi G. Hanumanth Kamath told The Hindu that water supply and distribution had improved in the last three years and wastage has reduced because of the new water supply lines installed with funds from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan.