While Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit claims that Yamuna cannot be cleaned before the Commonwealth Games, it has emerged that the funds for the Yamuna Action Plan
Delhi residents will soon have the authority to penalise those found wasting water. Having been accused earlier of wasting precious water to theft and leakage, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is finally taking a call on putting a check on water wastage.
In the midst of water-scarcity driven by deficient Monsoon rains, the Haryana government has accused Delhi of being extravagant and wasteful in its usage of precious water resources.
New Delhi: A weak monsoon over northwest India is sure to cause several problems for Delhi. To start with, Haryana has reduced supply of water to the capital and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is expecting 10 to 15% shortage in areas serviced by the Wazirabad and Chandrawal water treatment plants from Thursday. If it doesn
The consumers are being made to pay for the penalty levied upon Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for non-treating of sewage water. The DJB is charging three paisa per kilolitre water from the consumers. Strangely, consumer is being forced to pay for the failure of Jal Board to treat sewage water. The big question is why the consumer should pay for failure of DJB in the Capital.
Delhi Jal Board has no mechanism to check the demand of water in the city, which is the cause of its failure to identify and hence avoid water crisis in the Capital. The problem was highlighted by DJB's UK-based consultant company, Ernst Young, in its study presented to the DJB on Friday.
