RAJOURI: The traders and local people from Rajouri town held massive protest demonstration against the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department at main chowk here today.

They were protesting against the concerned authorities for their utter failure to provide drinking water to the people of Rajouri town. The agitators shouted loud slogans against the PHE Minister, Chief Engineer PHE and concerned Executive Engineer.

Delhi on Wednesday signed an agreement with Singapore to set up waste water treatment plants that will generate ‘new water’ for the city’s consumption. ‘New Water’ as it is popularly called is treated sewage and waste water that is being increasingly used in cities where water is in short supply.

The waste water is treated extensively and made fit for use. Singapore has an expertise in setting up ‘new water’ plants and is considered a successful model of waste water recycling and reuse.

After weeks of trading allegations and a two-hour meeting between the Chief Ministers of the two States on Monday, the ongoing water sharing dispute between Delhi and Haryana was eventually attributed to “heat”, “high demand”, “miscommunication” and “poor water management on Delhi’s side”.

If there was an agreement between the two sides, it could not be spelt out. Both sides maintained it was a “cordial meeting” and outstanding issues will be sorted through discussions, but no details were offered.

Haryana claims it is already giving Delhi double its agreed share.

New Delhi:Residents in many colonies may be struggling for their daily share of water, but so severe is the crisis in the agricultural belt of the capital — Najafgarh — that farmers have been force

Sheila and Hooda meeting today to resolve the problem

There was no end to the city's water crisis on Sunday, or to the bickering between Haryana and Delhi administrators over water sharing. On Sunday Haryana added another accusation to the ongoing allegations-counter allegations story; it said the city's water supplier the Delhi Jal Board has cut off water supply to the area where more than 60 families of officials from the Haryana Irrigation Department stay.

Amidst reports of the neighbouring state cutting water supply to Delhi, Haryana claimed Sunday that it was releasing double of its legitimate share of water to the national capital.

Stating this here, chief engineer of Yamuna Water Services, Haryana irrigation department in Delhi, Anand Kumar said Delhi’s legitimate share of water is 610 cusecs at Munak and 610 cusecs of water is being released for the Haiderpur Water Treatment Plant.

As the scarcity of surface water is hitting a critical level with the steady fall in ground water level as well, experts are now laying emphasis on harvesting rain water to carry out essential hous

Rainwater can be a potential alternative source for tackling acute water crisis faced by rural and urban people, said experts yesterday.

We have already written to the Prime Minister: Sheila

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Friday that her government would be approaching the Supreme Court for relief in the matter of Yamuna water supply if Haryana does not change its ways. Ms. Dikshit said she did not want a confrontation with Haryana but Delhi's larger neighbour had by deciding to cut 45 MGD (million gallons a day) supply to the Capital in the past fortnight left the city with little option.