Delhi’s water supply from Haryana has reduced further, claims Atishi; BJP says AAP indulging in ‘melodrama’

“In response to the emergency, the Delhi Jal Board has connected borewells in West Delhi to underground reservoirs and increased the number of tanker trips to 10,000 daily,” she said, adding that she had called for an emergency meeting with officials to address the crisis and secured a promise of assistance from Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.

“Due to the decrease in the amount of water Delhi is getting from both sources, Wazirabad Barrage and Munak Canal, the water production in Delhi’s water treatment plants is decreasing. Normally, these water treatment plants produce 1,005 MGD of water daily, but due to the shortage of raw water, this figure has been continuously decreasing for the last week,” she said.

The BJP, meanwhile, announced a citywide protest against the situation blaming the AAP Delhi government for it. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said Delhi was getting “almost full quantity of raw water” from Haryana and Uttarakhand, and accused the AAP and its leaders of “melodrama” over the situation instead of fixing issues of water theft by the “tanker mafia”.

“There is no water shortage in Delhi and we challenge Water Minister Ms. Atishi for an open discussion on raw water availability for Delhi at the Munak Canal in the presence of water department officials of both Delhi and Haryana,” Sachdeva said.