Fact check: What is the total budget for the clean CR in 2025?

1. How people framed the question — competing definitions collide

Sources in the packet use "clean" and "CR" in different institutional contexts, producing conflicting headline figures. One cluster of documents concerns Delhi’s 2025–26 budgetary pledges — allocations described as ₹500 crore for Yamuna cleaning, ₹500 crore for STP repairs and ₹250 crore for sewer lines — and various total-budget claims ^{[2] [3]}. A second cluster interprets "clean CR" as the U.S. continuing resolution (CR) funding lines for water revolving funds, which provides explicit dollar line items ^[1]. The divergence shows term ambiguity — the same words point to municipal Indian spending or to U.S. federal appropriations, producing incompatible totals ^{[2] [1]}.

2. The Delhi-side claims: allocations but no consistent "clean CR" total

Delhi-focused summaries report specific allocations for water and sanitation improvements in the 2025–26 budget cycle, notably a ₹500 crore earmark for Yamuna cleanup alongside ₹500 crore for STP repairs and ₹250 crore for new sewer lines ^{[2] [3]}. These items are clear line allocations, but the packaged totals quoted by those summaries conflict: one analysis asserts an overall Delhi budget total of ₹1.25 trillion, while another references a fiscal-year total of ₹1 lakh crore for water and sanitation programs ^{[2] [3]}. Neither source explicitly labels these Delhi figures as a "clean CR" in the U.S. sense, and one additional Delhi note links a possible ₹10,000 crore MCD transfer to civic projects without tying it to a CR concept ^[4].

3. The U.S.-federal interpretation: exact CR line items are explicit

A separate set of documents treats “clean CR” as the continuing resolution’s funding for the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, and provides specific appropriation numbers: $1,638,861,000 for the Clean Water SRF and $1,126,101,000 for the Drinking Water SRF under the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 ^[1]. Those line items are dated March 20, 2025, and appear in a summary of the CR’s funding landscape. Summing those two figures yields a federal total of $2,764,962,000 allocated to these two revolving funds in the CR ^[1]. This interpretation treats “clean” as shorthand for clean-water programs and “CR” as continuing resolution.

4. Cross-checks and gaps — what the packet does not resolve

The packet lacks an authoritative single-sheet that labels one figure as “the total budget for the clean CR in 2025” unambiguously for either jurisdiction. Delhi summaries present line items but contradict on totals ^{[2] [3]}. Federal materials provide precise SRF numbers but do not claim that those two line items constitute the entire CR’s “clean budget” — other federal programs affecting water quality may lie elsewhere in appropriations ^{[5] [1]}. Additionally, later 2025 reporting about shutdown dynamics shows the CR landscape was in flux in October 2025, complicating end-of-year accounting ^{[6] [7]}.

5. Dates and sourcing matter — here’s what’s freshest and most relevant

The federal SRF numbers are dated March 20, 2025, and are the most direct, dated numeric record in the packet for a “clean” appropriation within a CR ^[1]. Delhi budget analyses are dated March 23–25, 2025, and contain clear line allocations for river cleanup and sewage infrastructure, but they present inconsistent aggregate totals ^{[2] [3] [4]}. October 2025 pieces describe a later political disruption to appropriations processes but do not change the March CR line items; they instead underscore the instability of the funding environment later in 2025 ^{[6] [7]}.

6. Straight answer and recommended clarification for decision-makers

If you mean the U.S. continuing resolution’s clean-water appropriations in 2025, the packet supports reporting $1,638,861,000 + $1,126,101,000 = $2,764,962,000 for the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds ^[1]. If you mean Delhi’s 2025–26 municipal sanitation commitments, cite the specific line items — ₹500 crore for Yamuna cleaning, ₹500 crore for STP repairs, and ₹250 crore for sewer lines — but avoid relying on the inconsistent aggregate totals reported ^{[2] [3]}. For precision, state which jurisdiction and definitional framing of “clean” and “CR” you intend.