This was Delhi 3 years ago now its even better :)
57% will have no access to water 41% will have no sewage facilities 40% will be plunged in darkness The average vehicle speed on road will be 14 kmph, which will be reduced to 5 kmph in the next decade.
But look what it's doing to the place. If we carry on in the same manner, 57% amongst us would have no water at all in the next two years. Says Sarita J. Das, member-secretary, NCRPB : " Delhi would become another Fatehpur Sikri if this siege continues." The water table below Delhi has fallen to alarming levels (from 8 metres to 30 metres). Whereas the litres per capita per day of water should ideally be 363, in Meharauli is a pathetic 29, in Narela it is 31. You will have to start buying your water -- unless you are paying through your nose for it already -- because your underground pumps will not function beyond a point.
Those who can't afford to will suffer or migrate -- if they haven't already been menaced by the sewage.
The reason: people will dump their waste as they please -- into the Yamuna or, worse, pump into the ground. For, there would be no treatment facilities available for 41% amongst us in 2001.
For those who still manage to keep afloat, there will be no power: 40% of Delhi will remain plunged in darkness when the millennium dawns. When if you decide to go for a drive when your invertor packs up, you can only do so at the princely speed of 14 km an hour in 2001, which will show down to five an hour in the next decade. In any case, by then road space would be severely restricted as large parts of Delhi would be converted to slums, which now comprise 28% of the Capital.
But even the buttumption that you will live to witness this is optimistic. Just hope that the Capital's alrming crime and pollution will pbutt you be.
