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Severe water crisis at Delhi Zoo

Staff Reporter

Faces this problem every time water shortage hits city

“Demand high due to rising temperatures”
“Dependent on tankers for water”

NEW DELHI: Home to several species of animals and birds brought from different corners of the globe, Delhi Zoo is facing a severe drinking water crisis for the past one week.

Spread over 214 acres and regarded among the finest in Asia, the zoo is now totally dependent on Government water tankers to provide drinking water to its inmates.

The current water crunch is not something new to the zoo that faces the problem every time water shortage hits the city. Said Zoo Director D.N. Singh: “There has been a shortfall in the amount of drinking water supplied to the zoo. Though we are dependent on underground water for our miscellaneous use including cleaning of enclosures and ensuring that the water moats are full, drinking water shortage has become a problem. Also, rising temperatures have ensured that the demand for clean, fresh drinking water remains high during the season.”

“We are now dependent on tankers for drinking water. We use eight to 10 tankers a day for our animals and underground water is being used in a restricted manner to ensure that we don’t over-use the water available.

“Also, we have to be careful about the dipping water-table levels that have for several years now registered a downward trend.”

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