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New Delhi, The water level of the <keyword id="6354936" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="yamuna" source="Orion">Yamuna</keyword> in Delhi crossed the danger mark of 205.33 metres yet again on Friday, further delaying rehabilitation efforts in the flood-affected low-lying areas. The Central Water Commission's (CWC) data showed the water level reached 205.34 metres at 6 pm on Friday and may rise further to 205.45 metres by 11 pm. <br /><br />There have been marginal fluctuations in the water level over the last two-three days amid rain in the upper catchment areas, primarily in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. <br /><br />The Yamuna had been receding gradually after reaching an all-time high of 208.66 metres on July 13. <br /><br />The water level dropped below the danger mark by 8 pm on Tuesday after flowing above the threshold for eight days. It receded to 205.22 metres at 5 am on Wednesday, before it started rising again and breached the danger mark. <br /><br />The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh till July 22. <br /><br />In case of heavy rains upstream of Delhi, the increase in the water level could slow down the pace of rehabilitation of the affected families in the inundated low-lying areas of the capital and they may have to stay in relief camps for a longer period. <br /><br />It could also impact the water supply in the city, which became normal only on Tuesday after being affected for four to five days due to the inundation of a pump house at Wazirabad. <br /><br />The pump house supplies raw water to Wazirabad, Chandrawal and Okhla water treatment plants, which together account for around 25 per cent of the city's supply. <br /><br />According to Delhi Jal Board (DJB) officials, there is a shortage of 10-12 million gallons of water per day (MGD) due to inundation of some tube wells in the river floodplain at Palla. <br /><br />The DJB extracts around 30 MGD from the tube wells installed in the Palla floodplain. <br /><br />Parts of Delhi have been grappling with waterlogging and flooding for more than a week now. Initially, a downpour caused intense waterlogging on July 8 and 9, with the city receiving 125 per cent of its monthly rainfall quota in just two days. <br /><br />Subsequently, heavy rains in the upper catchment areas of the Yamuna, including in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana, led to the river swelling to record levels. <br /><br />At 208.66 metres on July 13, the Yamuna surpassed its previous record of 207.49 metres set in September 1978 by a significant margin. It breached embankments and penetrated deeper into the city than it has in over four decades. <br /><br />The consequences of the floods have been devastating, with more than 27,000 people evacuated from their homes. The losses incurred in terms of property, businesses and earnings have run up to crores. <br /><br />Experts attribute the unprecedented flooding in Delhi to encroachment on the river floodplain, extreme rainfall within a short span of time and silt accumulation that has raised the riverbed.

Yamuna water level crosses danger mark in Delhi again

<p>China's smog - which routinely engulfs major cities like <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/china-smog-2014-1">Beijing</a> and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/shanghai-smog-2013-12">Shanghai</a> - is notorious, and it's recently reached "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/smog-hits-danger-levels-in-beijing-2014-1" target="_blank">danger levels</a>." But the the smog in New Delhi, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/world/asia/beijings-air-would-be-step-up-for-smoggy-delhi.html?hpw&amp;rref=health&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">The New York Times reports</a>, is actually worse.</p>
<p>The air in New Delhi "is more laden with dangerous small particles of pollution, more often, than Beijing's," Gardiner Harris <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/world/asia/beijings-air-would-be-step-up-for-smoggy-delhi.html?hpw&amp;rref=health&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">writes</a>, and "a very bad air day in Beijing is about an average one in New Delhi." </p>
<p><span>The death rate due to chronic respiratory diseases is </span><a href="http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A866?lang=en" target="_blank">higher in India than anywhere else in the world</a><span>.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It was </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"></span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/smog-hits-danger-levels-in-beijing-2014-1" target="_blank">big news</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> when a measure of the concentration of fine particulate matter - the very dangerous air pollution that is absorbed into your lungs - climbed over 500 in Beijing. But Delhi had already reached those "danger levels" on eight separate days this year, </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/world/asia/beijings-air-would-be-step-up-for-smoggy-delhi.html?hpw&amp;rref=health&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">Harris writes</a>.</p>
<p>Here's what smoggy Delhi looks like on the ground.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wili/295189351/">wili_hybrid / Flickr</a></span></p><p class="caption">A New Delhi sunset. "The air was so full of smog particles," the photographer wrote, "that the sun often disappeared completely into the fog."</p></div><p></p></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/noii/2424727254/">Ben Dalton / Flickr</a></span></p><p class="caption">Here the morning smog is so thick you can barely make out the famous Jama Masjid in the distance.</p></div><p></p></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/footfun/3089166157">Evan Lovely / Flickr</a></span></p><p class="caption">Delhi's smog viewed from above.</p></div><p></p></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>B Mathur / Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">India's presidential palace, Rashtrapati Bhavan, engulfed in smog.</p></div><p></p></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Mansi Thapliyal / Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">Thick smog hangs over Delhi's polluted river Yamuna.</p></div><p></p></div></p>

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