What is more, to date, citizens, the industry and the water tanker mafia continue to dig deep with scant regard for law.The situation can still be salvaged if Delhi and Dilliwalas learn to appreciate the value of water and stick to the WHO norms of using 135 litres per capita per day (lpcd).

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of DailyO.in or the India Today Group. Large-scale construction, water-guzzling malls and extraction by residents go unchecked in a city that is perennially in the making.This has had a drastic impact on Delhi as groundwater aquifers do not know political boundaries - the same is the case for East Delhi that has contagious aquifers owing to neighbouring Noida and Ghaziabad.What is tragic is various agencies in Delhi do not seem to agree over who is responsible for acting against illegal borewells. Of depleting groundwater levels.

The writers are solely responsible for any claims arising out of the contents of this article. But its other arms were unaware of that data and claimed they had no such information about the borewells.Rightly termed the "reserve bank" for water, groundwater is the resource that will stand us in good stead when Delhi's neighbours refuse to share the Yamuna's waters.

New Delhi: India is facing the worst water crisis in its history, and 21 Indian cities will run out of groundwater by 2020, a new report from the NITI Aayog – a government think tank – said, highlighting the need for “urgent and improved” management of water resources. Has the present AAP-led government of the national capital been able to address some of these issues? For reprint rights: Delhi Election 2020: Is the national capital's water crisis an election issue?
In 2000, water was available 40 metres below ground level (bgl) but in 2017, for 15 per cent of Delhi (around 222 sq km), it depleted to 40-80 metres bgl.To put it simply, over the last two decades, there has been an increase in the number of spots where one needs to dig deeper to reach the groundwater.Situated at the tail-end of the water distribution system, and far from the water treatment plants, for decades now, many areas of southeast, south and southwest Delhi have been facing water problems. It is the same area that witnessed acute water retention till the 1970s, following which New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) deployed sumps to pump out the excess sub-surface water.The crisis began as commercial high-rises came up near the Connaught Place area in the '70s. But since the 750-odd million gallons per day (MGD) it gets is highly inadequate, it extracts almost 100MGD of water to meet the gap. There goes a tale surrounding this site that can be a wonderful metaphor for today's situation.It is believed that Delhi's celebrated sufi mystic Nizamuddin Auliya wanted to have a baoli (stepwell) built at the place where he stayed at the time. The 2019 Chennai water crisis was a water crisis occurring in India, most notably in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu.On 19 June 2019, Chennai city officials declared that "Day Zero", or the day when almost no water is left, had been reached, as all the four main reservoirs supplying water to the city had run dry. Then there are fringe zones such as Devali and Mehrauli that do not get water on a daily basis, let alone the promised 200 litres. Post-Independence, neither the government of Delhi nor the Centre bothered to revive the dug wells. As mentioned above, spread over 1,483sqkm, Delhi still receives an annual rainfall of 650-750 mm in the months of July-September. There is no point in relying on the king - the government of the day - be it at the Centre or in Delhi to take action.Else, let's be ready to meet Tughlaqabad Fort's fate.The author is an independent journalist based in Delhi. Of faulty or non-existent plans to meet the ever-rising demand for water. (It will either be abandoned or be inhabited by pastoral nomads).As luck would have it, Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq died within two years of the fort's completion and the fort has battled the vagaries of nature ever since. Of the water mafia who run illegal borewells. IndiaSpend Jul 09, 2018 09:31:51 IST. This buck passing has meant that groundwater extraction continues unabated.A personal anecdote to explain this lack of coordination: in 2013, I had written in one of my reports that even though groundwater extraction is banned, about 4.5 lakh tube wells/borewells continue to draw water with impunity in Delhi. Just 100 years ago, the city had about 1,200 big and small water bodies which stored rainwater for direct use and also recharged the groundwater table.Indian government planners blundered worse than the Britishers who had designed New Delhi.


This will alert our moderators to take actionCopyright © 2020 Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. But more than anything, of a callous Delhi citizenry that exploits groundwater as if there is no tomorrow.On May 9, many citizens woke up to alarming newspaper The report further said that in 2000, the water level in 27 per cent of Delhi's landscape stood at 0-5 metres below the ground, but in just 17 years, the area has shrunk to 11 per cent.


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