With over a thousand crore in its kitty, the Delhi Jal Board hopes to reach out to areas with no supply, plug leaks, enhance the treatment capacity and improve consumer convenience during the financial year 2011-12.
Sees Pollution Continuing With Delay In Interceptor Sewage Project
Neha Lalchandani TNN
New Delhi: Any hope of seeing a clean Yamuna in the near future was dispelled on Sunday by environment minister Jairam Ramesh, who said such a situation was not possible before at least the end of 2015.
The minister, who carried out an inspection of the river on Sunday morning and followed up with a me
The CPI (M) Delhi Committee has condemned the Delhi Government's proposal to privatise water distribution in the city. Seeking an immediate withdrawal of the proposal, the party has called the privatisation policy as
Even as Delhi wants Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to step up measures to solve the problem of effluents being dumped into the Yamuna, the city itself is far from keeping its end of the bargain.
Water production at the Chandrawal and Wazirabad water treatment plants was resumed on Wednesday after the ammonia levels in the Yamuna were restored to the permissible levels.
Jal Board blames Haryana industrial waste being pumped into the Yamuna
For a second time in less than a month, two of the city's water treatment plants were forced to scale down production on account of high levels of ammonia in the Yamuna waters. On Tuesday the levels of ammonia rose sharply, making the water unfit for use.
NEW DELHI: To ensure equitable distribution of water across the city, particularly in colonies facing difficulties due to non-availability of drinking water supply, five new underground reservoirs (UGR) were inaugurated at separate locations in the Capital on Sunday.
The newly constructed UGRs have been inaugurated at DDA Flats Pandav Nagar, C-Block Naraina Vihar, Naraina Village, Inderpuri and
