The Delhi Jal Board, led by its chairperson Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, undertook a two-day programme this past week to highlight how a public-private partnership (PPP) programme being launched in Nangloi will bring round-the-clock water to each doorstep in the area and dismissed concerns that the water supply system was being privatised.

The water utility has proposed to outsource water distribution and revenue collection on a pilot basis in three areas based on a PPP model. Speaking to consumers on the concluding day of the programme this past week, Ms. Dikshit compared the proposed Nangloi project, wherein a private company will be made responsible for the distribution and supply of the Nangloi water system,

Moving towards partial privatisation, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Wednesday concluded a two-day Jal Bhagidari workshop held to create awareness about the revamping of the water supply, transmissio

New Delhi: Continuing uncertainty over the fate of numerous parking projects has become a cause of concern for not only vehicle users but also the city’s planners.

Lack of rainwater harvesting finishing many resources

A large water body at Dhulsiras village in South-West Delhi is an example of what a water body should not be. Littered with plastics and other refuse, moss-covered and encroached on all sides, this water body is also an example of poor management and utter neglect. “It was a fairly large water body but residents gradually began to fill it up and to create more space for their houses and cattle, and whatever remains of it today is used as a littering bin,” said Rakesh Kumar, a resident of a nearby village and a volunteer with non-government organisation Natural Heritage First.

New Delhi: The first woman chief executive officer that Delhi Jal Board has ever had, Debashree Mukherjee has taken over the reins of the organization just before it enters its critical summer peri

Depletion of groundwater and its increasing pollution could be leading to a silent, nationwide public health crisis as aquifers in many stretches across India are becoming unfit for drinking, accor

New Delhi: After a delay of some years, the controversial groundwater Bill is finally ready to be presented to the Delhi cabinet.

New Delhi: In another attempt to allay fears that its public-private partnership projects are a precursor to privatization of the water utility, Delhi Jal Board has said it has sufficient water to

The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Wednesday received an additional Rs 400 crore in its pocket, with eyes on big investments in constructing new and rehabilitating the existing sewerage network in the ci

New Delhi: While the Central government is working on strengthening the existing Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrine Prohibition Act,1993, seeking to ensure rehabilitati