New Delhi, May 13 -- The Punjab government has sought a share in the Yamuna water allocation on the grounds that it was also a successor state similar to Haryana, ahead of a renegotiation of the terms of a 1994 water-sharing agreement among the Yamuna's riparian states, Delhi government officials said. The demands were made at a meeting of officials of the northern zonal council states held at Kartavya Bhavan on Monday. Delhi, on its part, maintained that its water share must not be impacted due to the demand, officials told HT. A senior Delhi government official, who did not wish to be named, said that Punjab has argued that if Haryana can demand its share of water from the Ravi and Beas rivers as a successor state of united Punjab, then Punjab, too, should be entitled to a share of the Yamuna's water. "Regardless of how the Yamuna's water is allocated, Delhi's designated quota must not be reduced. Delhi is already receiving around 225 cusecs less due to seepage and leakages. Delhi is supposed to get 1,149 cusecs water via Munak canal as per the water sharing agreement but only 924 cusecs of water is received at Bawana," the official said. HT reached out to the Punjab government for a comment but no response was received till the time of going to print. The water allocation among north Indian states, including Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, and Rajasthan, was made on the basis of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the riparian states on May 12,1994. It is slated to come up for renegotiation after 30 years. Punjab has previously argued that while it shares Ravi-Beas waters with Haryana, it had been "unfairly excluded" from the 1994 MoU pertaining to the Yamuna. A 1954 agreement between undivided Punjab and Uttar Pradesh entitled Punjab to two-thirds of the Yamuna's waters, and the 1972 Irrigation Commission recognised Punjab as part of the Yamuna basin. Meanwhile, landlocked Delhi continues to grapple with water shortage. Delhi depends primarily on its neighbours for 86.5% of its raw water supply....