With gas emissions during manual sewer cleaning recognized as a cause of death that has claimed the lives of many a sanitation worker over the years, Delhi government has finally taken the first st

The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi Government to ensure adequate water supply in some parts of Rohini in North West Delhi.

The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi Chief Secretary to coordinate with the authorities concerned to ensure supply of safe, regular and adequate drinking water with proper pressure to the re

Former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Rajinder Sachar called on Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday to discuss government proposal to privatise the supply of water in the national capital. Calling the move unconstitutional, Justice Sachar said he was "totally against the idea of privatising what is a citizen's basic right".

Justice Sachar, as patron of the Water Privatisation-Commercialisation Resistance Committee, met Dikshit in her office. "The privatisation of water is unconstitutional since our Constitution gives each citizen a right to live, and water is among the most basic of needs to survive. I am against any idea to charge huge sums of money for water," Justice Sachar told reporters after the meeting.

10 years on To replenish groundwater level, Delhi Jal Board invites plans for rainwater harvesting.

Struggling with depleting watertable and wasted rainwater, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has been trying to raise awareness towards the benefits of catching and recycling rainwater for more than a decade. Now, to ensure that its efforts don’t get washed down the drain, the water utility is looking for experienced organisations to boost its campaign.

NEW DELHI: Time was when the Yamuna was a revered river and people from far and near gathered to take a dip in its waters, in Delhi, on every celestial event and festival. The French traveller, Francois Bernier, who witnessed a solar eclipse here in 1666, notes: "I took my station on the terrace of my house, situated on the banks of the Gemna, when I saw both shores of the river, for nearly a league (5.6 km) in length, covered with gentiles or idolaters, who stood in the water up to the waist".

Not satisfied with the Delhi Jal Board’s explanation that private companies are being roped in to “enhance services and reduce non-revenue water”, a non-government organisation, Water Privatisation-Commercialisation Resistance Committee, has torn into the arguments and called for an open debate and discussion on the issue of initiating public private partnership programmes in the city.

The DJB has decided to initiate PPP programmes in three areas of the city to streamline distribution and revenue collection. The areas are Malviya Nagar, Vasant Vihar and Nangloi.

With elections to the Delhi Assembly due by the end of 2013, Delhi Chief Minister and Chairperson of Delhi Jal Board Sheila Dikshit has instructed the Delhi Jal Board not to increase the water tariff from January 1.

A statement issued by the Delhi Government said as per a decision of the Board taken on November 30, 2009, the revision was due from the first day of the New Year.

A public interest project to mitigate NCR’s increasing water shortages initiated from the PMO in 2009 has seen another letter being fired to the PMO wanting to know why it is stalled.

Water activist Vani Sundarji (wife of former Army Chief Gen. Sunderji) wrote to national security adviser Shiv Shankar Menon last week asking why WAPCOS, a public sector company, which had already done the original R&D study for the project and submitted it to Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has now been asked to adopt a merely supervisory role.