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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

In 8 years, a Maruti 800’s price spent on drinking water

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Had the Bishts settled down in Central Delhi or even Mayur Vihar, they would have had a spare car in the garage by now. But their decision to make Dwarka their home eight years ago has cost them roughly Rs 2 lakh towards packaged drinking water.

“We buy our drinking water, which is very costly. DDA had promised us four hours of water supply a day, but we don’t get even an hour’s supply regularly,” said Virender Singh Bisht, resident of DDA flats in Sector 14.

At Rs 70 for 20 litres, packaged water works out as expensive as the monthly electricity bill — Rs 1500-2000 — for a typical family of four adults. However, in Dwarka, unless a housing society has its own reverse osmosis (RO) filtration plant, residents are constrained to buy potable water at steep rates.

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Protests on streets over water shortage

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Poor water supply triggered street protests for the second consecutive day on Thursday.

Angry residents of Khanpur in southeast Delhi blocked the Mehrauli-Badarpur Road, which affected traffic in surrounding area too.

Ramesh Chand Sharma, a resident of Krishna Park in Khanpur, said their area did not get any water supply for the last five days.

“All our complaints to the DJB (Delhi Jal Board) have fallen on deaf ears,” he said.

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Monday, May 5, 2008

Water crisis: Delhi getting angry, desperate

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An elderly man died of cardiac arrest trying to resolve a fight in the family over dry taps in Shalimar Bagh on Saturday. And in Mukherjee Nagar, three students were beaten up and thrown out by their landlord when they tried to turn on a tap to wash utensils.

These are only two examples of what the water crisis that Delhi is battling for the past fortnight is doing to its people. They are getting angry and desperate. And this is just the beginning of summer. Large areas in west, south-west, north, north-west and outer Delhi have not received water supply since last week.

The staff of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), which supplies drinking water to the city, also got a taste of the anger over the weekend. Residents of south-west Delhi gathered at a DJB complaint centre on Saturday and heckled the staff for failing to supply water tankers despite logging their complaints.

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