Per capita availability of water in the country has declined to one-third in the past 65 years, the Water Resources Minister, Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday.

The Haryana State Urban Water Policy for 2012 has been notified for prevention of wastage of water and for its conservation.

Senior officers of the Public Health Engineering Department said on Monday that the policy has been formulated in the context of the present scenario of high percentage of wastage of water through unmetered connections in urban areas which were being billed on flat rate basis.

New Delhi: In another attempt to allay fears that its public-private partnership projects are a precursor to privatization of the water utility, Delhi Jal Board has said it has sufficient water to

Mushrooming multi-level residential buildings and absence of a proper government policy to provide water connection to these complexes are leading to a grave situation in the city.

Since the civic authorities are not providing water to residential complexes, the private builders are digging borewells to meet the demand, putting extra pressure on the depleting groundwater level. Yet, the state government is far from making a concrete policy on it and departments are passing the buck.

Terming the existing institutional and legal structures of water management in the country as “inadequate”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday advocated for “urgent” reforms and batted for an

The Kathmandu Valley Water Supply Management Board has forwarded a new policy to the Cabinet for sustainable management of underground water.