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Written by Sabika Syed
A day after three water treatment plants — Okhla, Wazirabad and Chandrawal — were shut owing to the Yamuna flooding the city, residents have complained of water shortage.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said while the plant at Okhla resumed functioning on Friday, the other two will start operating by Sunday morning if the water level goes below 207.7 metres. As of 8 pm on Friday, the water level was 208.12 metres. The Sonia Vihar water treatment plant’s production has also been reduced by 25%.
On Thursday, the DJB had said water supply will be affected for at least the next two days in areas including Civil Lines, Karol Bagh, areas under New Delhi Municipal Council, Rajinder Nagar, Govindpuri, Kalkaji, Model Town, Punjabi Bagh, Moolchand, Greater Kailash, South Extension among others.
In North Delhi’s Model Town, which receives water from the Wazirabad plant, Sanjay Gupta, General Secretary of Model Town Residents’ Society, claimed that the locality has not received water in two days and that the situation is dire. He said, “People had stored water but it is running out now. We have been buying bottled water…”
Gupta said the local market has run out of bottles of larger quantities of water: “We have to buy 1-2 litre bottles now, even 5-litre bottles are not available.” He said officials concerned did not respond to his calls over the issue.
Water supply has taken a hit in Dwarka as well. Rejimon CK from the Dwarka Forum, a welfare association of residents, said while water supply hasn’t been completely cut off, it has been reduced. “In a society with 256 flats, 74,000 litres was provided,” he said.
Residents of the locality are calling for private tankers to make ends meet, he said.
Rajiv Kakaria, member of a Greater Kailash RWA, said there is an intimation of water supply being disrupted Saturday: “We were told supply might be hit so residents are taking precautions by storing water and only using it for essential tasks.”
Kritika, a resident of Paschim Vihar in West Delhi, said their water supply got cut on Thursday and that the water tank in the society was empty. She added, “There is no drinking water in our locality so we have just been shifting between other people’s houses.”
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