India, Jan. 10 -- Issues like contaminated water, pipeline leakages and irregular water supply in the national capital are not recent but the result of years of neglect, Water Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma said on Friday, in apparent reference to the erstwhile AAP regime.

Making this assertion in the assembly, he also said these chronic problems arose due to indecision and delay by the previous Governments. Parvesh Sahib Singh said that the Delhi Government has identified around 7,900 km of 20 to 30-year-old pipelines, which will be replaced in the next two to three years to ensure the supply of clean drinking water to city residents.

"We did not create these problems-we inherited them. The difference is that we are not running awa...