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New Delhi:<\/strong> The water crisis in the national capital has escalated, with various political parties taking to the streets and engaging in a blame game. On Saturday, Congress workers held a \u2018Matka Phod\u2019 (break pitchers) protest in Delhi\u2019s Krishna Nagar area, targeting both the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government at the Centre.<\/p>\n The protest aimed to highlight the severe water shortage plaguing Delhi due to scorching heatwaves and rising temperatures. In a separate protest, BJP workers gathered near Atishi\u2019s office in Kalkaji, carrying earthen pots on their heads, which they later smashed on the ground to protest against the water crisis.<\/p>\n Responding to the Congress protest, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla criticized the party for remaining silent during the elections while Delhi faced water shortages. He blamed the AAP for mismanagement and alleged corruption in water distribution, accusing them of protecting water tanker mafias despite Supreme Court orders.<\/p>\n AAP leader and Delhi Water Minister Atishi said that the government is taking every possible step to curb the water crisis. She appealed to the people of Delhi to reduce water wastage as much as possible.<\/p>\n Atishi revealed that due to severe heatwave conditions, water supply to Delhi has fallen short, with water production declining by 70 million gallons per day (MGD). She said that emergency tube wells have been established in many areas, especially West Delhi, to address the crisis.<\/p>\n Earlier, the Supreme Court stated that the issue of sharing Yamuna River water between states is complex and sensitive, leaving the matter to the Upper Yamuna River Board (UYRB) to decide on Delhi\u2019s demand for additional water. The Delhi Government, in a fresh affidavit, informed the apex court that the tanker mafia is operational on the Haryana side of the Yamuna River, and the AAP government lacks jurisdiction to act against it.<\/p>\n It is for Haryana to explain what steps it is taking to preserve the full supply of water to Delhi between the point of release and the point of receipt, the affidavit mentioned<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] New Delhi: The water crisis in the national capital has escalated, with various political parties taking to the streets and engaging in a blame game. On Saturday, Congress workers held a \u2018Matka Phod\u2019 (break pitchers) protest in Delhi\u2019s Krishna Nagar area, targeting both the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government and the Bharatiya Janata […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Delhi-water-crisis.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29984,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29982\/revisions\/29984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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