New Delhi, Aug 23 (UNI) Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav on Saturday mentioned that what the party’s state unit has been saying, supported with facts and figures for the past 12 years, regarding issues in water supply in several parts of city, has been validated by a water audit conducted by a private agency, he claimed.
Yadav claimed that the water audit has pointed out a huge gap in the supply and demand for water and residents incur high costs for purchasing water from other sources.
The Delhi Congress chief alleged that the previous Aam Aadmi Party government ruined the situation with the so-called “free” water promise, as residents neither got free water nor even potable water through the water board.
He said that the water supplied, that too in fits and starts, during the AAP regime, was unfit for human consumption, forcing residents to depend on the tanker mafia or bottled water from the market for their daily consumption.
Yadav further alleged that the then Kejriwal government virtually handed over the potable water supply into the hands of the water mafia to inflict huge financial burden on the commoners, and also pushed the once-profit-making DJB into a debt trap of thousands of crores.
Yadav stated that the BJP, in its manifesto for the assembly polls, had made several promises, including “free and clean water,” and to provide effective solutions on the issue.
He further accused the BJP of not implementing their promise.
Pointing out at the findings in the private agency’s audit, he said it mentions that 200 families in the Mansarovar Park in West Delhi spent lakhs of rupees annually for purchasing drinking water, and over all, 34 per cent people of the city purchase water from private supplies, including bottled water, and 34 per cent of households spend 15 per cent of their budget for water.
