The Water Supply and Drainage Ministry has taken moves to supply drinking water, toilets and other essential sanitation facilities to schools, Ministry Secretary Asoka Pieris said.
He said 800 schools have been found without these essential facilities and only 2,000 schools have drinking water facilities.

The Supreme Court today gave the green signal for a Rs 503-crore drinking water project meant for 930 villages and towns in Karauli and Sawai Madhopur districts of Rajasthan.

The project, which will be implemented by the Public Health and Engineering department in about a year, involves laying of a 160-km pipeline to draw water from the Chambal river.

BANGALORE: A mega drinking water project will be implemented by the Karnataka government to mitigate the problem of drinking water in all 59,630 urban and rural habitations of the 176 taluks of the State. The project cost is projected at Rs. 53,877 crore to be spread over the next five years.

DH News Service, Bangalore:

The State government is committed to provide potable water from surface-level sources to all urban and rural areas in five years, Chief Minister Yeddyurappa said on Thursday.

Agartala, Oct 15: The Central Government has sanctioned Rs 665 Crore for water project in Agartala under Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNURM) to ensure supply of safe drinking water.
Official sources here today said the project include renovation of existing water systems, maintenance of ground pipes and transportation of water from Gumati River, 70 kilometres away from Agartala.

Representatives of NGO AOSED and Water Rights Committee at a press conference yesterday demanded steps for ensuring rights on safe water in the southwest coastal region of the country.

They have also demanded inclusion of this vital issue as an election pledge in the manifesto of the political parties before joining upcoming national elections.

Even in low and moderate levels, the element is harmful high inorganic arsenic exposure to diabetes has been established earlier by studies in Bangladesh, Taiwan and Mexico. But the effect of low and moderate levels of arsenic was unknown. A study in the us has found that inorganic arsenic, even at low levels, may cause diabetes. Found in mineral deposits in rocks and soil, arsenic

The Hadabima Authority has initiated a number of special agricultural projects and the Agriculture and Agrarian Services Ministry has released the required funds to the authority to go ahead with the projects.

They call it the elixir of life but with changing times, water has also become a driving force in economic activities, traditionally in agriculture, and now increasingly in the industry.

No wonder, there has been a tendency to take for granted the availability of water and show scant responsibility to the understanding of the ecological processes that make it available to us.