{"id":16985,"date":"2026-06-05T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/water-evaporates-on-the-way-delhi-cm-rekha-guptas-remark-on-water-shortage-sparks-row-video\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:45:50","slug":"water-evaporates-on-the-way-delhi-cm-rekha-guptas-remark-on-water-shortage-sparks-row-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/water-evaporates-on-the-way-delhi-cm-rekha-guptas-remark-on-water-shortage-sparks-row-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Water evaporates on the way&#039;: Delhi CM Rekha Gupta&#039;s remark on water shortage sparks row\u2014 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/water-evaporates-on-the-way-delhi-cm-rekha-guptas-remark-on-water-shortage-sparks-row-video\/articleshow\/131521084.cms\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top:3px;margin-right:5px\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/photo\/131521084.cms\" \/><\/a>Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta attributed the city&#8217;s water shortage partly to evaporation during intense summer heat, a claim widely shared and criticized. Opposition leaders and activists dismissed her explanation, highlighting that urban water crises are typically caused by a mix of factors like demand, supply, leaks, and infrastructure problems, not just evaporation<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/water-evaporates-on-the-way-delhi-cm-rekha-guptas-remark-on-water-shortage-sparks-row-video\/articleshow\/131521084.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta attributed the city&#8217;s water shortage partly to evaporation during intense summer heat, a claim widely shared and criticized. Opposition leaders and activists dismissed her explanation, highlighting that urban water crises are typically caused by a mix of factors like demand, supply, leaks, and infrastructure problems, not just evaporation Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delhi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}