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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;If you wished to enter Raota village, on the Delhi-Haryana border in the national capital&amp;rsquo;s southwest district, you would have to wade through knee-deep wastewater.&lt;/p&gt;

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<p style="text-align:justify">If you wished to enter Raota village, on the Delhi-Haryana border in the national capital&rsquo;s southwest district, you would have to wade through knee-deep wastewater.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Roads there resembled a sewer; people used boats to commute. Wastewater entered almost every house. There was not a single patch of dry land visible and the rice farms looked like underwater weeds.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Officially, Raota is part of Delhi; but the village looks nothing like the rest of the capital &mdash; no clean drinking water, electricity or street lights.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">For the past 15 years, this village has been inundated with wastewater from the Najafgarh drain (erstwhile, the Sahibi river) which separates the two states. The drain gets wastewater from residential colonies and industries in Gurugram. A study by Delhi-based non-profit Centre for Science and Environment in 2005 found that about 50 per cent of Gurugram&rsquo;s sewage finds its way into this drain.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">When there is heavy rainfall &mdash; like during this year &mdash; it exacerbates the crisis. When Down To Earth (DTE) visited Raota on August 27, 2020, more than 283 hectares (2.83 square kilometres) of farmlands, roads and empty plots were submerged in wastewater.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Experts say the flooding is due to unregulated construction activities over the Najafgarh wetland, where the Najafgarh drain empties. This has shrunk the size of the wetland &mdash; from 220 sq km before Independence to a mere 7 sq km today.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">A report by the National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad, says the built-up area in the Haryana sub-region of National Capital Region increased by 38,032 ha between 1999 and 2012. In the same period, the area of wetland plummeted by 17,539 ha.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">&ldquo;Earlier, wastewater would recede after the monsoon. Now it stays throughout the year,&rdquo; said Suraj Mal, a 96-year-old resident of the village.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/Waste/raising-a-stink-delhi-s-raota-village-sinks-under-wastewater-73465">click here</a> to read more.</p>
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Raising a stink: Delhi’s Raota village sinks under wastewater -Ishan Kukreti

-Down to Earth A village in outer Delhi is sinking in wastewater overflowing from the Najafgarh drain. That’s because of construction over a wetland, which has blocked the natural water channels. Extreme rainfall has worsened the crisis If you wished to enter Raota village, on the Delhi-Haryana border in the national capital’s southwest district, you would have to wade through knee-deep wastewater. Roads there resembled a sewer; people used boats to commute. Wastewater entered almost every house. There was not a single patch of dry land visible and the rice farms looked like underwater weeds. Officially, Raota is part of Delhi; but the village looks nothing like the rest of the capital — no clean drinking water, electricity or street lights. For the past 15 years, this village has been inundated with wastewater from the Najafgarh drain (erstwhile, the Sahibi river) which separates the two states. The drain gets wastewater from residential colonies and industries in Gurugram. A study by Delhi-based non-profit Centre for Science and Environment in 2005 found that about 50 per cent of Gurugram’s sewage finds its way into this drain. When there is heavy rainfall — like during this year — it exacerbates the crisis. When Down To Earth (DTE) visited Raota on August 27, 2020, more than 283 hectares (2.83 square kilometres) of farmlands, roads and empty plots were submerged in wastewater. Experts say the flooding is due to unregulated construction activities over the Najafgarh wetland, where the Najafgarh drain empties. This has shrunk the size of the wetland — from 220 sq km before Independence to a mere 7 sq km today. A report by the National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad, says the built-up area in the Haryana sub-region of National Capital Region increased by 38,032 ha between 1999 and 2012. In the same period, the area of wetland plummeted by 17,539 ha. “Earlier, wastewater would recede after the monsoon. Now it stays throughout the year,” said Suraj Mal, a 96-year-old resident of the village. Please click here to read more.