Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that the Aam Aadmi Party  Government will make water supply in Delhi as good as in developed countries and hire a consultant for better water management ensuring not a drop goes waste in the city.

“The Government will hire a consultant to suggest measures to improve water supply management and no wastage of water in Delhi to enhance the water availability,” he said.

“The process got a bit delayed due to corona otherwise the process would have been completed in March or April,” he said.

The Chief Minister also said that his Government has been working to increase water availability in Delhi.

He said, “We have been working to increase water availability in Delhi. We have been talking to the Governments of UP, HP, Uttarakhand and other States, which have more water.”

The CM said some Opposition leaders are saying that the water supply in Delhi is being privatised. “No privatisation of water is happening. There can be no privatisation of water at any cost,” he said.

The Chief Minister said a lot of water goes to waste in Delhi. The Delhi Jal Board supplies 930 million gallons of water (MGD) per day to the city -- 176 litres per person. Of this, a lot of water gets stolen and leaked.

Accountability should be fixed for every drop of water. There should not be any wastage, Kejriwal asserted. He said, “We have started walking in the direction of providing round-the-clock water supply. The consultant will tell us about the state-of-art technology, such as the SCADA system, with the help of which water supply can be managed from the central control room,” he said.

Kejriwal said that the Delhi Government is committed to ensuring a regular supply of water in Delhi just like many developed and technologically advanced nations across the world.