NEW DELHI: on Tuesday Haryana government told the Supreme Court about the “huge distress” for water that they are undergoing as the supply of water from the Hathni Kund barrage located in the Yamuna nagar district has been reduced to half.
The state submitted this before Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta, who was hearing a matter relating to Yamuna water sharing between Delhi and Haryana.Haryana’s counsel said the state would continue supplying 150 cusecs of water to Delhi till May 15.
The counsel informed the hearing bench that they were receiving only 50% water from the Hathni barrage. Thus, there is a huge distress of water level in Haryana.The bench was also told that a meeting would be held on April 23 in which the chief secretaries of Delhi and Haryana and secretary of the ministry of water resources will be present
On April 23, the apex court had ordered the chief secretaries of both the states and secretary of the ministry of water resources to immediately discuss and sort out the issues.Delhi had earlier complained that there was a shortfall of 120 cusecs of water of Yamuna river daily for Delhi.
A plea was filed by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) alleging that Haryana had reduced by one-third the supply of Yamuna water to the national capital, leading to a grave water crisis.The DJB had affirmed that Haryana was supplying Delhi only 330 cusecs of water when they were supposed to supply 450 cusecs per day, which was agreed upon between the state and the Union Territory. Due to the cutback in the water supply to the Wazirabad reservoir, the plant was running at reduced capacity.
