Delhi water supply: Seveal areas may get affected today; Here are details

Water supply may be affected in Rohini Sectors 6, 7, and 8 on Tuesday morning. Delhi Jal Board is installing a flow meter at a booster pumping station in Rohini. "Due to the installation of a flow meter at the 700mm diameter outlet line of Rohini Sector 7 BPS, water supply will not be available in the evening of Nov 11 and may be in the morning of Nov 12," DJB stated.

DJB supplies water to around 27 lakh customers across the city. The board installs electromagnetic flow meters, which are fitted at the outlet of the plant and inlet of underground reservoirs, to achieve the target of real-time audit of the water supplied.

Installation of flow meters has been going on for the past few years. "The flow meters are installed at the inlet and outlet at each of the district metering areas. The project has been going on. When this meter is installed, water supply is stopped," said a DJB official.


As for now, Delhi is grappling with severe water shortage due to alarmingly high ammonia contamination in the Yamuna river, primarily attributed to industrial waste from Haryana. With the water treatment plants (WTPs) at Sonia Vihar and Bhagirathi struggling to cope with the ammonia content in the Yamuna's raw water, supply in the national capital is being disrupted, AAP said.

The BJP's Delhi unit spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said, "It is regrettable that the Delhi government has failed to ensure proper water supply for the past several months despite a good monsoon and, when the festival season is here, water shortages and cuts are increasing."

Kapoor claimed AAP failed the people of Delhi in two ways.

It failed to ensure working sewage treatment plants to prevent wastewater inflow in the Yamuna while also not equipping the Sonia Vihar, Chandrawal, Okhla, Dwarka and other WTPs with the sufficient capacity for effective treatment of ammonia, he added.