Delhi govt planning to commission Munak Canal

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today said the government was planning to commission Munak Canal and make fully functional three major water treatment plants which will help in overcoming the water shortage problem in the city.
"We will be able to make fully functional three major water treatment plants which are lying idle due to lack of required raw water. With commissioning of Dwarka, Okhla and Bawana water treatment plants, we will be able to overcome the problem of water shortage," she said.
Dikshit was speaking after laying the foundation stone of major sewer line at Harsh Vihar area in West Delhi.

Union Communications Minister Kapil Sibal was also present on the occasion.
The Chief Minister said she has already taken up the issue of Munak canal with the Prime Minister's Office so that Delhi get 80 million gallons of water from it.
The Munak canal was constructed by Haryana with financial assistance of around Rs 400 crore from Delhi government on the condition that the national capital will be supplied 80 MGD water from it.

But later, Haryana refused to supply the water to the city.
As both sides failed to settle the dispute, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had set up a GoM headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram to find a solution to the matter.

Haryana has opposed any water-sharing, saying it has been generously providing water to its neighbour even though its own demand has gone up in recent years.
Construction work on the 102-km canal between Munak in Haryana border and Haiderpur in Delhi has almost been completed.
The canal has been constructed to stop loss of water through leakages in various existing canal along the Yamuna.
The current average demand of potable water in the city is around 1,100 million gallons per day (mgd) and currently Delhi Jal Board supplies around 800 mgd water across the city after treating raw water in its treatment plants.

The demand is projected to touch around 1,400 mgd by end of the 12th Five Year Plan in 2017.