On 2 February, there were ecstatic news reports about how the latest decision of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) would end the National Capital Region’s water woes. The tribunal had refused to revoke the environmental clearance for the 40MW water storage dam on the Giri river in Himachal Pradesh. Known as the Renuka Hydro-Power Project, it is meant to be a storage scheme to harness the monsoon discharge of the river for augmentation of drinking water supply for the NCR. The agreement was signed way back in 1994.
The debate about Delhi’s increasing water footprint. . .
