Water supply to be back in Central and North Delhi

Water supply to North and Central Delhi is likely to be restored by Thursday.

Water supply to North and Central Delhi is likely to be restored by Thursday. The supply plunged on Tuesday after two water treatment plants were shut down due to detection of an excess amount of ammonia in the water.

An increase in pollutants in the Yamuna forced Chandrawal and Wazirabad water treatment plants to work at about a fourth of their capacity on Tuesday.

On Wednesday,ammonia level in the Yamuna at Wazirabad came down to 0.6 parts per million from 1.7 on Tuesday,said a Delhi Jal Board official.

The chlorides have also come under permissible limit to enable DJB to start Wazirabad and Chandrawal Water Treatments at partial capacity, the official added.

Meanwhile,Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday asked the Haryana government to make sure factories in Panipat and Sonipat stop releasing industrial waste into the Yamuna.

Such unauthorised release of effluent had caused pollution levels in the Yamuna to shoot up in the past too. In a letter to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda,Ramesh said the Haryana State Pollution Control Board must keep a check on such violations.

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