Delhi CM raises concern over rising ammonia levels in Yamuna river, seeks intervention of CEC

Posted by admin_kas on 2025-01-28 12:47:21 |

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New Delhi, Jan 28: Chief Minister Delhi Atishi raised concern over increase in the ammonia levels in the Yamuna River saying that it was affecting the water supply in Delhi.

Delhi CM has written to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), and requested urgent intervention over the issue.

CM Atishi has however alleged the role of Haryana in the crisis, saying that the facts enlisted in the note of the CEO of Delhi Jal Board make it clear that the DJB Water Treatment Plants are designed to treat ammonia only upto 1 ppm level.

"The note also points to the fact that the ammonia levels have steadily increased in the water coming from Haryana to Delhi via River Yamuna due to mixing of untreated sewage or industrial waste from Haryana, with levels rising over 7 ppm in the last two days i.e. 700% beyond the treatable limit," the letter reads.

CM Atishi further noted in her letter that these toxic levels of ammonia in water coming from Haryana have rendered Delhi's water treatment plants almost incapable of treating the water effectively.

"It has resulted in curtailment of water supply by 15 to 20% which is approximately for 34 lakhs people of Delhi," she said.

The letter further reads that It was a known fact that high ammonia levels in drinking water can lead to a public health crisis causing ailments such as kidney damage, respiratory distress and even long-term organ damage.

She further described the situation as "an act of water terrorism" accusing the Haryana Government of intentionally disrupting Delhi's water supply to impact the upcoming elections.

"Despite knowing the toxic effects of releasing ammonia in raw water supply, the note of CEO of Delhi Jal Board leaves no doubt that it is due to the indiscriminate and deliberate dumping of untreated sewage and industrial waste from Haryana that is causing the present water supply crisis in Delhi," she said.

"This is not an act of negligence; it is an act of water terrorism to deliberately impact the conduct of free and fair elections in Delhi," the letter reads.

Delhi CM also took to her microbloggig website X and said that Ammonia levels continue to be 6 times above normal in Yamuna waters, at the point it is entering Delhi from Haryana.

"Such levels are extremely toxic for the human body. This water cannot be treated and supplied to the people of Delhi. Otherwise, their lives will be at risk," she wrote on X.