Water shortage in several areas of East and South Delhi is expected to be eased out as water supply from Uttar Pradesh to Delhi has been restored with the breach in the Upper Ganga Canal having been fixed.
“The repairing of the breach of the canal is completed. Water supply amounting to 470 cusecs per day to Water Treatment Plants (WTPs) in Delhi’s Sonia Vihar and Bhagirathi has been restored from Thursday,” said V Singh Bhadoria, superintendent engineer of UP irrigation department. Water supply in western UP farming districts like Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Ghaziabad, Bulandshar, Aligarh and Mathura have also been restored, he added.
Several areas in East and South Delhi like Mayur Vihar Phase I, Karkardooma, Greater Kailash, Vasant Vihar and Vasant Kunj were facing severe water shortage after UP had cut raw water supply to the two WTPs in Delhi from the upper Ganga canal to fix the breach at Khatoli on May 17. Besides, 18 districts in UP were also hit because of this.
The Upper Ganga Canal supplies 450 cusecs of water to Delhi, out of which 200 cusecs is supplied to the Bhagirathi plant and 250 cusecs goes to the Sonia Vihar plant.