It also decided to clamp down on unlicensed swimming pools, which would now include those in posh areas, schools and clubs. The municipal authorities were told to take strict punitive action against defaulters.

Delhi Chief Secretary Omesh Saigal has written to the chairman, Railway Board, that railway wagons should not be washed in the Capital but should be washed outside.

Similarly, the chairman of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) as well as those in charge of the inter-state bus terminals have been told not to use potable water for washing of buses, an official release said here today. It was decided that tubewell water would be supplied to `dhobi ghats'. Senior officials of Delhi Jal Board (DJB), MCD and NDMC attended the meeting.

Haryana has refused to cooperate with Delhi for augmentation of its raw water supply. While the Capital's water demand is put at 800 million gallons per day (MGD), the supply is about 600 MGD.

Earlier in the day, senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar said that the Nangloi water treatment plant was ready for commissioning. ``It was set for inauguration in October last year by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Haryana Chief Minister Bansi Lal agreed to give water. But then elections were announced and the function was postponed. When Congress came to power, the whole exercise came to a halt.''

He also announced that if Haryana failed to release adequate water to Delhi within a week, a maha panchayat of representatives of areas reeling under acute crisis of water will be convened this Sunday.