Delhi BJP holding a protest at ITO
crossing on Friday against the ongoing water crisis in the Capital. Photo:
Sushil Kumar Verma
Haryana has agreed to release more raw
water to Delhi from Tajewala out of the share of Uttar Pradesh in the Yamuna
and this would help the Capital city in generation of more water at its Sonia
Vihar and Bhagirathi water treatment plants, where the treatment had been
affected due to disruption in raw water supply from the Ganga Canal.
The Delhi Government said Haryana
announced its decision to release more water after Chief Minister Sheila
Dikshit on Friday requested her Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda to
help the Capital tide over its current water crisis by releasing more water to
it. “With arrival of 240 cusecs (cubic feet per second) from Tajewala and
utilisation of water from storage tank in Delhi, it is expected that water
supply would become normal in South and East parts of the Capital,” the Delhi
Government said.
The statement further said that “water
from Haryana would be lifted from Wazirabad”. It would then be take to Sonia
Vihar and Bhagairathi WTPs.
Following Haryana’s noble gesture in
releasing extra water to Delhi in an hour of crisis, Ms. Dikshit also thanked
Mr. Hooda for his prompt intervention in the matter.
Meanwhile, it said, the Uttar Pradesh
Government has started taking up the repair work on the Ganga Canal on a
war-footing. The work is expected to be completed in a few days and that would
result in normal supply of raw water from the Ganga Canal.
A breach had occurred in the canal
near Khatauli and that had led to disruption in supply of raw water for Delhi.
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