NEW DELHI: With some perplexity, and some poetic licence, residents in south Delhi could well be saying, ‘Water, water everywhere, nor anywhere to dig’.
The Central Ground Water Board has warned of depleting underground water and described the problem in many south Delhi areas as critical and semi-critical with the water table more than 50 metres below the surface. And yet in Greater Kailash, Amar Colony, New Friends Colony, National Park (Lajpat Nagar IV), Chittaranjan Park and other places, the water seems to lie just a few metres below the ground, percolating into basements and posing a structural risk to buildings.
