ALLAHABAD: Feeding on supply of contaminated water, water-borne diseases are again raising its heads in large pockets of Old South and West City.

The district administration and district health wing have initiated steps to prevent any possible outbreak of cholera in Kuttanad.

Water borne diseases have broken out in many villages in Kreeri and Tangmarg blocks of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, leaving dozens of people sick and scores suffering from jaundice and fever

Demand for White Paper explaining how Govt. intends to provide adequate drinking water

Taking up the issue of the Capital’s water bodies drying up for lack of proper care and upkeep, Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president Vijay Goel on Thursday demanded a White Paper from the State Government explaining how it intends to provide adequate drinking water to the citizens. Following a visit to Sanjay Jheel in East Delhi, Mr. Goel said he was shocked to see the condition of the water bodies and has constituted a team of party workers to visit the various water bodies in the city and draft a report on their condition.

Stresses on water supplies aggravated by climate change are likely to cause more conflicts and water should be considered as vital to national security as defense, the United Nations report said on

DIGBOI: With the unexpected discovery and detection of worm like aquatic creatures in drinking water this morning by the residents of Digboi Borbil in Tinsukia District being supplied by Digboi uni

Is the PPP model going to work in the field of drinking water services?

The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, on Thursday directed the Chairman of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and the Deputy Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS),

With the increased contamination of drinking water affecting the health of rural people, the government has initiated steps to test the quality of water at all the villages.

Though the task was gigantic to check quality of water with limited number of employees from various departments concerned, the government is using the services of Asha volunteers and Anganwadi workers of respective areas to check quality of water supplied to the rural people. As part of providing quality water, the Rural Water Supply(RWS)) department is conducting training programmes to the Asha volunteers and Anganwadi workers over testing drinking water samples.