Delhi Jal Board Warned On High Ammonia Levels in Yamuna
The official said that the production capacity at the two water treatment plants in Delhi has been reduced by an alarming 40 percent due to the combination of these two factors.
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New Delhi: Delhi Jal Board Vice Chairman Raghav Chadha wrote to Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday, requesting his intervention to address the problem of “raw water shortages” in Delhi and high levels of pollutants in her.
Chadha said that the high concentration of ammonia in Yamuna’s water results in a “partial or complete” shutdown of two water treatment plants, Chandrawal and Wazirabad, which supply around 228 million gallons of drinking water to the population of Delhi.
Industrial waste discharged into drains in Haryana reaches the Wazirabad floodplain and pollutes the Yamuna downstream, he said in a letter to Khattar.
“Ammonia levels rose to 8.4 parts per million on Wednesday. Along with that, the shortage of raw water has had a major impact on the drinking water supply in Delhi. The production capacity at the two treatment plants of Wastewater has been reduced by an alarming 40 percent due to the combination of these two factors, “he said.
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