The Capital’s pollution watchdog has asked Bisleri’s packaged drinking water manufacturing plant in west Delhi to shut shop immediately. The reason: The plant has been drawing 3.31 lakh litres of groundwater every day without requisite approval.
This quantity of water is sufficient to meet the daily requirements of 2,500 people.
Illegal drawing of groundwater is a big menace. Census 2011 reveals that Delhi has about 4.5 lakh tubewells and borewells and most of whom are illegal. The revenue department has granted only 806 boring permissions.