CORTALIM: The Water Resources Department (WRD) has been implicit in admitting that while granting permissions for ground water extraction and transportation in Mormugao taluka, the required clearan

Hyderabad: Has the famous hospitality of Hyderabad gone for a toss due to water scarcity in the city? This seems true in the case of a large number of families who have asked their relatives and friends not to visit them this summer and only reach here after the monsoon hits the city.

Shortage of drinking water supply has compelled many families in the state capital to politely turn down requests for a vacation visit by their relatives as many borewells have dried up and the duration of piped water supply has also been reduced.

The amount will be spent to sink 59 borewellsin different parts of the town

The Erode Corporation has received a sum of Rs. 1.70 crore from the State government to improve the water supply provisions and ensure adequate supply to the residents in the town.

The newly urbanized areas of the ever-expanding city have a new threat hovering over them - fluorosis.

With summer reaching its peak, the drinking water problem is intensifying in the tailend areas of the Krishna delta.

Two Loan Agreement between the Government of Bangladesh and the Government of China for implementation of Padma-Jashaldia Water Treatment Plant of Dhaka WASA was signed on Tuesday (7/5/2013) at Eco

The Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act has often been ridiculed as a scheme that has hardly any impact.

New Delhi: In the absence of additional water from the Munak canal, Delhi Jal Board has put in place several measures to ensure that water distribution is not affected this summer when demand is ex

Within five days of imposing a moratorium on new industries in Chhattisgarh's Korba district for being the fifth polluted industrial zone in the country, the environment ministry did a U-turn, havi

The bottled water you are consuming either at home or outside isn't necessarily drinkable as it may not be processed involving standard procedure. The packaged water one may be consuming could possibly just be tap water or ground water. Out of nearly 53 bottling plants supplying packaged water in city, only 18 have ISI certificates.

With the summers setting in, leading to water shortage, consumption of packaged drinking water has shot-up in the city. According to an estimate, the city consumes anywhere between 30,000 to 40,000 bottles (20 liter capacity) of water per day.