Unfortunately, In India’s capital city it is the poorest people who pay the highest costs for the water crisis because of the overall shortage as well as the supply of poor quality and polluted water.
Devraj, a socially conscious youth, said that at a time when income levels are very low, people have to pay Rs 200 per month to people in another colony just to get water for their daily needs.
As this water is of poor quality, they have to spend more on water for drinking and cooking.
The quality of drinking water from the taps is often poor and is frequently found to be foul smelling.
C-2 Sector-27 Resettlement Colony, Rohini is inhabited by people evicted from the Kirti Nagar-Mayapuri area.
People here say that only about 25 per cent of the evicted persons were allotted plots while others were left to their own fate.
As the water quality in the colony is poor many people have to buy water.
Such a worrisome situation of water shortage and poor quality at a time when summer has just started draws attention to the wider failure of the government in meeting the most basic need of people.
The difficulties which the poor have to face in meeting this most basic need can be seen at four levels.
5,635 crore to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation but only Rs.