New Delhi [India], March 24 (ANI): The Delhi authorities on Friday determined to arrange an ammonia removing plant to deal with polluted Yamuna water coming from Haryana.
The choice was taken at a high-level assembly chaired by CM Arvind Kejriwal, who gave directions to arrange the plant inside six months.
Water Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj, Chief Secretary, DJB CEO and senior officers of the involved division have been additionally current within the assembly.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal just lately presided over a high-level assembly with the Delhi Jal Board to debate a variety of urgent points in regards to the nationwide capital’s water provide. During the assembly, the Chief Minister highlighted the necessity to present clear consuming water to all Delhiites, enhance water manufacturing, and curb the wastage of water.
“One of the main concerns raised by the Chief Minister was the high level of ammonia in the water that is sourced from Haryana and flows through the Yamuna river into Delhi. The Chief Minister expressed his worry about the excessive presence of ammonia in the water, which has made it extremely challenging for Delhi’s water treatment plants to clean the water effectively,” the Delhi authorities stated in a press word.
As a end result, the manufacturing of water has been adversely affected. This challenge of ammonia within the water was raised in a earlier assembly as nicely, the place the Chief Minister had directed the Delhi Jal Board to discover a viable answer to the issue. During the newest assembly, the Chief Minister mentioned potential options with the DJB officers and pressured the significance of resolving the problem urgently.
Delhi Jal Board officers apprised the Chief Minister that the division has accomplished the technical feasibility work of the venture. Under this, work might be achieved in two methods. Firstly, efforts are being made to cut back the ammonia current in Yamuna water as a lot as potential by treating it within the water therapy plant. The second is that expertise may even be utilized by the Delhi Jal Board for in-situ therapy of ammonia. A technical report is being ready for this.
It was knowledgeable within the evaluate assembly that water from Drain No. 2 and Drain 8 of Haryana is coming into the Yamuna. This water may be very polluted. There is a large quantity of ammonia current within the water, because of which there’s an issue in working the water therapy plant. A pond has been constructed close to the Wazirabad water therapy plant to hold Yamuna water to the water therapy plant.
Delhi Jal Board is attempting to arrange an in-situ therapy plant close to the pond itself. DJB has began work on this. It is our endeavour to cut back the air pollution stage of ammonia current within the water by putting in an in-situ therapy plant close to the pond. Through the in-situ therapy plant, the quantity of ammonia might be lowered within the water to such an extent that when the handled water is distributed from there to the water therapy plant, that water could be fully handled there and turn out to be potable. Delhi Jal Board goals to eliminate this drawback inside 6 months.
As a matter of truth, the water that Delhi will get from Haryana by means of the Yamuna is handled within the Wazirabad and Chandrawal water therapy crops of the town. Officials stated that since December 11, Delhi is getting nearly zero river water from Haryana. The water that’s seen within the Yamuna close to the Wazirabad Water Treatment Plant is just not really of the Yamuna, however the industrial waste from Panipat and Sonipat, which is coming into the Yamuna by means of their drains.
The quantity of pollutant components on this water is so excessive that it is vitally troublesome to treatment it with a water therapy plant. Officials stated that a number of letters have additionally been written by the Delhi Jal Board to the Haryana authorities on the problem of polluted water coming into the Yamuna. But the Haryana authorities has not taken any cognizance of these letters.
After the Haryana authorities’s non-cooperation on the problem, the Delhi authorities has determined to cut back the ammonia and different pollution current within the Yamuna water at its personal crops. On the directions of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, it was determined to arrange an in-situ plant to cut back the extent of ammonia in Yamuna water because of industrial waste from Haryana. After this, the handled water might be taken to the water therapy plant to be purified after which delivered to folks’s properties.
During the evaluate assembly, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal stated that the Delhi authorities is totally dedicated to offering ample and clear water to the folks of Delhi. “Soon we will use best-in-class technology to clean ammonia produced in water from industrial waste coming from Sonipat and Panipat in Haryana so that the production capacity of water can be increased,” he stated.
“In the last one and a half months, the Chief Minister has been holding regular review meetings with the concerned departments including the Delhi Jal Board and is personally monitoring each and every point of the project. In this one and a half months, the Chief Minister held this third high-level meeting today,” the assertion added.
Earlier on March 15, the CM held a evaluate assembly and directed the officers to arrange an ammonia removing plant to remove the ammonia current within the water. The Chief Minister had requested the Delhi Jal Board to type a plan inside every week.
Earlier, on February 17 additionally, CM Kejriwal held a high-level evaluate assembly on the venture. (ANI)