Unique initiative to make Delhi-NCR Water Self-sufficient by 2016
While the government is fighting the Centre for Renuka Dam and Haryana for the Munak Canal, Delhiites have come together in a unique initiative to make the city self-sufficient by 2016. Blue Delhi program an unique initiative by Delhi residents towards making Delhi self sufficient in its water resources.
Delhi has no additional sources of water and in the next few years the city could be facing a major water crisis. Residents of Delhi have come together in a unique initiative to make the city self-sufficient in its water resources by 2016. The Blue Delhi program will be joined by resident welfare associations, students, concerned citizens, NGOs and government bodies, including Delhi Jal Board, who will work through various task forces to educate, monitor and implement programs on water conservation.
“The Blue Delhi plan is perhaps the most ambitious, trend-setting water plan ever. It will bring together powerful partners for a goal oriented task. It will also minimize additional resource requirements by using existing schemes and funding opportunities towards the objective. The plan will recognize that the city will have no additional water very soon and work towards making Delhi self sufficient in its water resources,” said Jyoti Sharma, director, Forum of Organized Resource Conservation and Enhancement (FORCE).
Blue Delhi will see groups working towards conserving groundwater, implementing projects at the ground level, implementation of the groundwater bill, recycling and reuse of waste water for horticulture, promoting techniques for saving water at the household level and bringing about equality in distribution.
Statistics compiled by FORCE say that Delhi’s poor face a water-supply shortfall of between 40 and 100 per cent. DJB officials accept that there are huge variations in supply, primarily due to the population expanding at a rate that was never factored in plans. “We are working to make the supply system equitable but even then it is imperative for residents to understand that there is just so much water we have. Water is not a luxury and one must use it with utmost caution,” said a senior DJB official.
However, the broad outline for the project is to make Delhi a zero rainfall outfall city and to ensure that all water bodies are filled with fresh, treated waste or flood water.
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