Overview
- Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta held a high-level review on Saturday and said Haryana has assured a minimum of 1,000 cusecs of water to be routed to Delhi through the Munak Canal to help ease shortages.
- Officials say municipal production has dropped by about 90–100 million gallons per day because the Wazirabad pond level fell from roughly 674.5 feet to about 668 feet, reducing raw‑water intake to treatment plants.
- The Delhi Jal Board has deployed more than 980 tankers making over 6,000 trips daily and installed additional borewells that added roughly 10.5 MGD of capacity as immediate relief measures.
- Residents and AAP protesters staged a 'Matka Phor' demonstration complaining of dry taps and reports of dirty or sewer‑mixed water in several neighbourhoods, and the DJB helpline logged 11,055 complaints with over 8,500 resolved so far.
- Officials have ordered short‑term fixes such as emergency pumping, dredging near Wazirabad and expanded groundwater extraction while commissioning IIT Roorkee to study a dedicated Haryana‑to‑Delhi pipeline as a longer‑term fix.