Delhi, hold on, this dam will quench your thirst soon
Synopsis
After 50 years on the drawing board, Renuka Dam, which will provide 23,000 litres of water per second to Delhi in the dry months, looks set to become reality. But construction and filling up of the reservoir could take another eight years
Last week, Delhi was grappling with Haryana and Himachal Pradesh for water in the Supreme Court. Big numbers – 137 cusecs, 150 cusecs – got tossed around. A cusec is 28.3 litres of water per second. There are 86,400 seconds in a day. Do the math and you are looking at 33.5 crore to 36.7 crore litres a day.It’s a lot of water, but nothing compared with what Delhi could have got every summer, without begging, pleading, fighting and litigating, had
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