Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta explained the capital's water shortage on June 4: 'Jo paani aata hai, woh beech mein evaporate ho jaata hai.' The channel that aired the video deleted it. The water shortage has not been deleted. Residents awaiting condensation.
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta offered a meteorological explanation for the capital's chronic water crisis on June 4, 2026: the water dispatched through Delhi's distribution network evaporates inside the pipes before reaching taps, due to the heat. The television channel that broadcast the clip deleted it shortly after it went viral. The Chief Minister did not retract it. This is not Gupta's first contribution to the scientific record: she has previously described AQI as 'a kind of temperature measurable by any instrument,' announced that Safeda, Babool, and Keekar trees do not produce oxygen, and praised Delhi's storm drains for their Venetian aesthetics. Delhi's water distribution system supplies — in theory — a city of 20 million people and is documented to suffer from leakage, infrastructure gaps, and inequitable supply. The Chief Minister's atmospheric pipeline theory would reclassify these as acts of thermodynamics, requiring no budget allocation, no repair schedule, and no accountability. The Deccan Herald has counted the faux pas. The taps remain dry.