According to official estimates, Delhi’s water demand is projected to rise from the present 900 million gallons per day to 1,500 million gallons by 2023. A new dam will be constructed on Tons river, a tributary of the Yamuna, on the Himachal Pradesh-Uttarakhand border to meet nearly two-thirds of Delhi’s projected additional demand for water by 2023. Once completed in 2023, the dam will supply 372 million gallons of water every day to Delhi – besides meeting the drinking water and irrigation needs of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. “Our summer water woes can be wiped out with this water… it will be a relief. Activists, however, believe the project would be an ecological disaster because it would submerge hundreds of acres of land in both Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

Source: Hindustan Times August 09, 2016 05:37 UTC