Shri Om Prakash Chautala in National Develeopment Council meet laid claim on sharing waters of all non riparian north Indian rivers namely Ravi, Beas, Satlej, Sharda and Ganga in para 13 & 14 of his speech [completion of Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal in Punjab territory. This canal would carry the share of Haryana in Ravi-Beas waters to Haryana.] and also admitted no storage dam is built on Yamuna so far [Till such time the river are interlinked, construction of proposed projects like Kishau Dam, Renuka Dam and Lakhwar Vyasi Project on river Yamuna should be given priority so that natural calamities like floods and droughts can be better managed.]

Indian capital city New Delhi has only 4.6% share in Yamuna river waters and most of Yamuna waters is intercepted at Tajewala Barrage (now replaced by Hathnikund Barrage) 260 km upstream of Delhi by riparian states Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Most of the water released for New Delhi is lost in the riverbed. Water releases for New Delhi in post monsoon period are not sufficient to keep adequate flows in Yamuna river to flush out and digest sewage and industrial waste of the capital city.