“You Are Asking Citizens To Drink Sewage Mixed Water?”

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Right this moment, On 4th July, Simply two days after ordering an inspection, the Delhi Excessive Courtroom slammed the Jal Board for making residents drink “sewage combined water,” questioning why motion wasn’t taken till somebody knocked on the doorways of the courtroom.

The Delhi Excessive Courtroom criticized the metropolis’s water division for supplying contaminated water to a number of colonies, forcing residents to drink “sewage combined water,” simply two days after it had ordered an inspection of the affected areas.
The bench of Chief Justice D Okay Upadhyaya and Justice Anish Dayal in the course of the listening to, remarked,
“Until somebody knocks the doorways of the courtroom, you your self can’t do that? You might be asking residents of this metropolis to drink sewage combined water?”
The courtroom was addressing a plea claiming that residents in varied components of east Delhi had been receiving “extremely contaminated potable water” tainted with sewage from their family faucets.
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Areas affected embody Yojana Vihar, Anand Vihar, Jagriti Enclave, and surrounding neighborhoods.
Following the request for an inspection, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) submitted a standing report revealing that many houses in these areas have outdated and broken water provide pipes, together with the petitioner’s residence.
The DJB acknowledged that the water distribution system in Yojana Vihar has surpassed its operational lifespan and requires full alternative, with the system initially put in 35 years in the past.
The board additionally supplied a timeline for the alternative of the broken pipes, indicating {that a} tender for the undertaking could be issued by July 7, with a contract to be awarded inside ten days, by July 17. The undertaking is predicted to be accomplished inside 20 days of the contract date.
The courtroom has mandated that the DJB should end changing the outdated and broken pipelines by August 2025, warning that non-compliance would lead to severe penalties.
The DJB dedicated to prioritizing the alternative of broken water distribution networks within the affected areas primarily based on accessible funding and has been instructed to file an affidavit outlining the timeline for the entire alternative of the water distribution system within the area.
The bench acknowledged,
“We additionally direct that authorities of DJB needs to be vigilant and take acceptable measures to test that booster pumps should not used throughout non-supply hours by the residents of the world and if any resident is discovered indulging on this, essential motion be taken on this regard,”
The case is scheduled for additional listening to on August 13.