NEW DELHI, MAY 30 — The Haryana government has assured a minimum supply of 1,000 cusecs of water through the Munak Canal to help manage the capital’s current drinking water challenges, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta stated on Saturday.
The development follows a high-level review meeting chaired by the Chief Minister at the Chief Minister Seva Sadan, where water utility administrators detailed the widening gap between supply and seasonal demand. Following a direct telephonic discussion with Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Gupta affirmed that the neighboring administration agreed to deliver an additional 100 cusecs above the recent average of 924 cusecs to stabilize the municipal network.
As a landlocked territory, Delhi remains reliant on external resources from neighboring states, including Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, to satisfy its raw water baseline. The Delhi Jal Board maintains an average daily production threshold ranging between 990 and 1,000 million gallons, though output has registered a deficit of approximately 90 million gallons per day below the seasonal target of 1,002 MGD over the preceding week.
To mitigate immediate domestic shortfalls across affected urban pockets, the administration has deployed a fleet of more than 980 water tankers executing over 6,000 daily distribution trips. Out of 11,055 public service complaints registered on the utility helpline during the past seven days, official data indicates that upwards of 8,500 grievances have been successfully resolved by field teams.
Water Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh maintained that the local supply strain is directly linked to a significant drop at the Wazirabad pond level, which fell from its standard operational baseline of 674.5 feet to approximately 668 feet. The minister asserted that this drop has hampered regional water treatment plant output by 80 to 100 MGD, a deficit worsened by extended dry weather conditions across the upper reaches of the Yamuna River.
In response to the deficit, the Chief Minister directed engineering cells to treat all distribution leakages with immediate administrative priority to prevent preventable conservation losses. Gupta declared that equal fiscal and operational focus is being directed toward immediate municipal relief operations alongside structural long-term interventions to secure the city’s future resource requirements.
As part of these long-term management strategies, the Delhi Jal Board is partnering with IIT Roorkee to initiate a comprehensive technical feasibility study regarding the installation of a dedicated supply pipeline from Haryana designed to eliminate transmission evaporation and leakage. Additional groundwater development in the Yamuna Khadar belt has already expanded existing capacity by 10.5 MGD per day, while preliminary tendering has commenced for a conservation blueprint involving the construction of 500 new rainwater harvesting structures and the systematic restoration of ,1000 legacy reservoirs.
