Interruptions to water supplies are common after eight years of near-anarchy since Muammar Gaddafi was ousted, but a wider crisis is now coming to a head in a country made up mainly of arid desert and
JIND: Residents of 11 villages took out a shirtless march on Monday in Narwana town of district Jind seeking water. They demanded that water be released from Bhakhra canal into the minor canal reaching
A water crisis is brewing in many parts of the world's second-most populated nation as unsustainable use and few measures to harness rain lead to shortages Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu that’s
In Delhi Water Supply & Sewage Disposal Undertaking v. State of Haryana (1996), the Supreme Court said, “Water is a gift of nature. Human hand cannot be permitted to convert this bounty into a curse,
Around 100 hostels in Chennai’s busiest neighbourhoods have stopped operations over the past few days, seemingly contradicting the Tamil Nadu government’s claims that the state capital is not suffering
Eight of the nine major dams in the Marathwada region have gone dry; CM Fadnavis promises action With the arrival of the monsoon getting delayed, Maharashtra’s dams are left with only 6.61% of the total
Record number of tankers are sole source of water in large parts of state. Behind the crisis, late monsoon following a deficit year, depleting groundwater in 279 talukas, under 10% live storage in 13 key
There is no scarcity of water as the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is supplying water more than its capacity, said DJB vice-chairman Dinesh Mohaniya. He said the entire country is facing drought-like situation
To increase piped water coverage from the existing low 18 per cent to 100 per cent coverage by 2024, the Centre has requested all states to adopt an approach similar to the newly-formulated Jal Shakti
India typically witnesses water scarcity during summer months, but the situation this year is particularly grim in western and southern states Millions of people are desperately awaiting overdue monsoon
