HKS Snow Update 2025
<p>The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend,
Drinking Water Scarcity
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Expert: Harvesting, recycling can help overcome water shortage
Climate change not about future, it is about today, says noted environmentalist “Shimla will not become another Cape Town” as it has capacity to reinvent and resolve water crisis, says Sunita Narain,
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South Africa: R78 Million Eastern Cape Water Project Fails to Deliver
"In the past 18 months we have had water for only eight months. Last time water was running in our taps was six months ago," says Meko Poswayo, a former steering committee member of the Qamata water project.
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Govt: 60 crore face high to extreme water crisis
Demand to be twice the supply by 2030 Sixty crore people in India face high to extreme water crisis and its demand is projected to be twice the availability supply by 2030, the Lok Sabha was informed
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Earth's resources consumed in ever greater destructive volumes
Humanity is devouring our planet’s resources in increasingly destructive volumes, according to a new study that reveals we have consumed a year’s worth of carbon, food, water, fibre, land and timber in
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Malawi: Multibillion Kwacha Project to Alleviate Mzimba's Water Woes
Mzimba — The water sector in the country has had its fair share of challenges especially in supplying adequate and safe water to large sections of the population. Increased population over the years
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Climate change can slow GDP by 9.8 per cent
Living standards for half of Indians may fall due to temperature change: Report Hyderabad: Climate change will affect the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, which would mean a decline of 14.4
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Centre asks States to adopt Gujarat’s ‘reusing treated waste water’ policy
In view of impending potable water crisis in majority of States, the Centre seems to have found a ray of hope in the Gujarat Government’s month-old policy for ‘reusing treated waste water’. Being seen
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Water's crisis is ours to change
Each drop must bring more crop and more of everything By the time you read this, the crisis will be over. It will be business as usual. Instead of acute and crippling water shortage, the worry will
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Not only Bengaluru, whole nation is staring at an impending water crisis
The crisis is mainly being brought about by three specific factors: climate change, pollution and poor farming practices Shimla and Bengaluru are two very disparate cities. One is a quaint hill station
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India to achieve targets of Paris Agreement on climate change
East India is the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change owing to its geographical and ecological diversity even though this region is least contributor in global warming. Stating this here on