YAMUNA WATER CONSERVATION PROJECT

About:

• Objective: The project aims at conserving water in the floodplain between Palla on the Delhi-Haryana border and Wazirabad to deal with the water shortage in the capital, particularly during summers.
  
  
• Background: The project was first recommended in NGT’s 2015 order, ‘Maily Se Nirmal Yamuna Rejuvenation Plan’. Various academic institutions, such as IIT Delhi, NIH, CGWB, IIT Bombay, WAPCOS and Delhi University, also indicated the potential to store huge amount of water on the floodplain.
  
  
• Strategy:
  • Under the plan, Delhi government has proposed to create waterbodies and reservoirs on the Yamuna floodplains.
    
    
  • The reservoirs will store water overflowing from the Yamuna during the monsoon and help recharge groundwater.