The Haryana Administration on Sunday came out with its side of the
ongoing water sharing tussle story between Delhi and Haryana. Rebutting Delhi's
claims that only 350-380 cusecs of water is being received at Haiderpur,
Haryana said records accessed by them have revealed that Delhi is getting the
full supply of 425 cusecs at the pond level, because its production was 208
million gallons a day on Saturday.
“Delhi has been claiming that the production at Haiderpur is 15
MGD less than the installed capacity, whereas in their record book we saw that
production was 208 MGD on Saturday, which is higher than the average production
in five years,” said an official who visited the Haiderpur plant.
Claiming that Delhi has started lifting more water than it is
allowed to, the official said: “We have been releasing more than 610 cusecs
because of the Supreme Court order. The 1996 agreement between the States,
states that Delhi will be supplied as much water as is necessary to maintain
the pond level at 674.5 feet, but it does not mean that Delhi can keep lifting
water without any checks. For instance they have been routinely lifting 210 MGD
of water at Haiderpur as against the 200 MGD that they were lifting till 2008.
If they claim that their production has increased only because of
technological intervention then why are they lifting more water?
On the dip in pond level at Wazirabad, the official said: “We
were told that the dip in Wazirabad pond level was caused because Delhi
diverted water to the Sonia Vihar water treatment plant. We learnt that Uttar
Pradesh Government withheld some water supply from the Ganga on account of some
payment issues, and Delhi without informing us, diverted water to Sonia Vihar.”
The official said: “There have been checks by teams from the Union Water
Resources Ministry, the Upper Yamuna River Board and all of them have agreed
that Haryana is releasing the full quantity of water. We are open to any
inspection by any independent team.”
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