SC directs Himachal Pradesh to immediately release surplus water to Delhi

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Himachal Pradesh government to release 137 cusecs of surplus water to Delhi by Friday, while also instructing Haryana to facilitate the release through the Wazirabad barrage, ensuring the water reaches the National Capital immediately to mitigate the acute shortage of drinking



water. 

Even as the top court made a crucial intervention to ease Delhi’s water crisis, it emphatically stated that there must be no politics surrounding the issue of water release, clarifying the directive was issued not because of the Delhi government’s arguments in its petition but due to the pressing issue of the severe water crisis in the national capital.