The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
MADURAI: Almost a month after the corporation reduced the frequency of drinking water supply from every alternate day to once in four days, many tail-end areas are yet to receive water. The supply was reduced for more effective distribution, as it allowed corporation officials to draw up a schedule and …
The coal-rich Belpahar town is facing acute water shortage. A few deep bore wells and tubewells provided by the Belpahar Municipality earlier have been the only means of drinking water for the water stressed public. The locals also get water supplied in tankers by the MCL and municipal authorities, but …
The residents of Bhawanipatna town and its surrounding areas in Kalahandi district are facing acute water shortage. Most of the tube wells and hand pumps in the area have dried up due to decreasing level of groundwater. “There are some PHD water supply stand posts but they are controlled by …
Chronic water shortages in Nepal’s capital city force reliance on private water sellers, who turn stored water from the Himalayas into profit Every morning, just a few metres away from a busy, dusty road in Kalanki, Kathmandu, Ambika Thapa sells water from a 5,000-litre tank. From where she stands, you …
Another likely closure of the Sirhind canal in Bathinda for 21 days is likely to deepen the water crisis in the city. The water flow in the canal is to be blocked in view of the construction of a footover bridge for Uriya Colony situated adjacent to the Guru Nanak …
HYDERABAD: Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) officials are brazenly violating the Andhra Pradesh Water, Trees and Land Act (Walta), which is meant to stop indiscriminate sinking of borewells, by permitting borewells in their jurisdiction. Though Walta clearly states that any individual, an institution or other bodies have to apply to dig …
PUNE: Drinking water scarcity may hit many blocks in Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad, Amravati, and Nagpur revenue divisions this summer, a recent survey by Groundwater Survey and Development Agency (GSDA) has said. Farmers are already grappling with water shortage for irrigation in various parts of the state. The number of blocks …
GHAZIABAD: With summer approaching, the spectre of a water crisis looms large over five lakh residents of Mohan Nagar. Residents fear, with civic authority Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam unprepared as before, they will have to battle an acute water crisis this year as well. Last summer, areas like Shalimar Garden, Vikram …
A senior BJP leader of Palamu, Parshuram Ojha has written to the Chief Minister Raghubar Das about the drinking water crisis in the district. The BJP leader has urged the Chief Minister to set up a team of officials to know the basic problem. Ojha who is known here as …
Delhi Jal Board (DJB) on Monday announced its action plan to deal with water crisis during the summer season, which emphasized on maintaining equal water distribution and adding more population under the ambit of the distribution network. According to an official, CEO of DJB directed all the officers to complete …
With the onset of summer season, drinking water crisis has also started giving a tough to the citizens here. After tube-wells becoming faulty in Haldwani’s Damuwadhunga area of late, people of that region are experiencing a tough time. Though the officials of the Jal Sasthan, Haldwani, claimed that works have …
People of frontier Jhenaigati, Sribordi, Nalitabari upazila of Sherpur district are suffering for want of pure drinking water in this dry season. Every year this problem becomes so acute and people of this area especially the hilly ethnics are the worst sufferer of it.The ethnics of the Garo hill said …
The summer of 2015 is going to be tough for farmers who are finding it difficult to get water to irrigate their land. As the monsoon was erratic and inconsistent, not enough water was stored in the state reservoirs, which are now fast drying up. This has resulted in less …
The groundwater route taken by the authorities to answer the ever-rising water crisis in the city is not going down well with many city residents. Though the department officials explains that the underground water would be used only during exigency but some residents who came to know about the groundwater, …
THANE: In Mumbai's backyard of Diva, a survival battle is underway for several families struggling for the most basic of their needs - water. Household taps here sputter to empty air and drinking water is sourced from the roadside taps either outside Diva station or take the train to Mumbra …
Bharat Chaudhary, a tribal farmer from Baradpani village near Ahwa in Dang district, wanted to earn big money when he was first introduced to strawberry cultivation on his two bigha land under a state government scheme sometime ago. Had be succeeded, he could have earned approximately Rs 4 lakh per …
Water In Beed Dams Down To 15% Of Capacity In pitch darkness at 3am, the village of Katchincholi empties out onto the bone-dry bed of the Godavari. Armed with as many pots as they can carry , the women start digging the gravel with their hands.Once a muddy pool of …
Nakuru — The Nakuru County Government has set aside Sh196.4 million for water projects, Governor Kinuthia Mbugua has said. Mbugua said the move to find long and short-term water shortage solutions will contribute towards sustainable development in the county. 'Nakuru is a water scarce county at the moment with very …
Drinking water is being supplied in tankers to 700 villages in seven districts to mitigate drinking water shortage, Revenue Minister V Sreenivas Prasad informed the Legislative Assembly on Monday. Replying to a discussion on drinking water shortage in several pockets of the State, the minister said the government had released …
The World Water Day-205 with the theme ‘Water and Sustainable Development’ was observed at the Mission Shakti conference hall here on Sunday. Presiding over the meeting, Executive Engineer and Member-Secretary of District Water Sanitation Mission Tapan Rout said water is a finite resource that is fundamental to human wellbeing. The …
