Delhi Jal Board (DJB) Chairman Satyendar Jain has instructed officials to increase water production of 16 millions of gallons per day (MGD) at Haiderpur by upgrading existing recycling plant to produce additional drinking water.
Jain said the project will be completed by December 2021. “This intervention will save 88 crores from DJB budget. Similar augmentation will be done at Dwarka, Nangloi and Okhla water treatment plant (WTP) in future,” he said.
All the key projects related to 24x7 supplies were discussed in a review meeting of all the on-going DJB works called by the minister.
The review meeting lasted five hours where timelines presented by the DJB to the Chief Minister last month were taken up for discussion and all the bottlenecks were resolved to expedite the works. Key decisions were also taken to resolve perpetual ammonia pollution contributed by Haryana in drinking water of Delhi.
The Minister also instructed to install an ozone based ammonia treatment plant on priority at Chandrawal and Wazirabad WTP. These two WTPs are severely affected by ammonia pollution as they are dependent on raw water from the Yamuna River. Present WTPs can treat low doses of ammonia contamination but in the recent past it is seen that huge quantities of ammonia is dumped into rivers by Haryana due to which WTPs have to be shut down. After installation of the ozonation unit, WTPs will be able to treat ammonia as well as many other chemical and biological pollutants, he said.