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 …
Of the 15.51 lakh households in Uttarakhand under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), 10.41 lakh have been provided with toilets. The State’s toilet coverage under the programme is about 67 per cent. Work on construction of toilets for the remaining 5,09,830 families will be facilitated through NBA and MNREGA funds, …
Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti has said that the Eco Sensitive Zone, which was announced by the previous Central Government, needs to be reviewed because they seemed to have made it without doing proper homework. She further said that the Prime Minister Narendra …
Iran has backed up months of warnings to Tehran residents to reduce their water use amid continuing shortages by cutting supplies to those deemed as consuming too much, state media said. Some 3,057 “large consumers” of water in the capital have had their supplies cut by seven hours a day, …
Varanasi: The project of several crores of rupees for supply of potable water is like a white elephant for the Kashi. The people are compelled to drink contaminated water supplied by Jal kal department. "For past four months, we have been consuming contaminated water giving foul smell," said Anjali Nag, …
Constituency watch: Assandh Scores of villages in this segment and the city face a huge scarcity of drinking water since its quality is unfit for humans. It is one of the major issues in every election. People of the assembly segment allege that all the political parties always assure them …
Plans to set up a three-block-long "slip 'n slide" in Los Angeles next month have drawn the ire of conservationists who say splashing up to 16,000 gallons of water down it during a severe drought is frivolous and irresponsible. Organizers of the one-day event say that represents only a small …
Sinking borewells is one of the main causes of noise pollution. Bangaloreans, facing noise and air pollution in their neighbourhood from construction activities and other civic works, can heave a sigh of relief as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has sprung into action. As a first step, the Palike …
WILLOWS, Calif. — When the winter rains failed to arrive in this Sacramento Valley town for the third straight year, farmers tightened their belts and looked to the reservoirs in the nearby hills to keep them in water through the growing season. When those faltered, some switched on their well …
The first half of 2014 was by far the hottest in California in 120 years of record-keeping, and that heat is exacerbating one of the most devastating droughts in state history. Month after month, the red and burgundy patches on the California drought map have been spreading, with 82 percent …
The city's water woes continues to affect people as steps initiated to streamline the supply have met with opposition from the interests that are supported by elected representatives, including corporators, the district minister V Srinivas Prasad said on Tuesday asking the CM Siddaramaiah's intervention. However, taking objection to his complaint, …
Severe droughts have left about 226,000 people with drinking water shortages in a county in Nanchong City in Southwest China's Sichuan province, local authorities said Wednesday. Nanchong City has seen a sharp drop in rainfall this year, with 19 townships experiencing severe drought in worst-hit Nanbu County in Nanchong, said …
Despite the rains pouring their bounty across the state in the last fortnight, some 203 villages in Kutch continue to be in the category of semi water scarcity affected areas. These villages are located in the talukas of Abdasa and Lakhpat. These villages along with two talukas of Tharad and …
Over one million people in Sri Lanka have severely been affected by the prolonged drought prevailing in 14 districts of the island, a government minister says. Minister of Health Maithreepala Sirisena said around 1.15 million people have been affected by the drought in .Polonnaruwa, Anuradhapura, Moneragala, Ampara, Hambantota, Puttalam, Trincomalee, …
Henan is experiencing its worst drought since 1951, with villagers in Ruzhou, a city in the midwest of the province, drawing lots to take water from wells, Zhengzhou Evening News reported on Wednesday. "The wells have never dried up in the past 40 plus years and this is the first …
Two new reports on the global energy-water nexus have concluded that by 2040 there may not be enough water to meet both the world's drinking water and energy generation demands. With large amounts of water required to generate energy from fossil fuels and nuclear, competing water and energy demands risk …
Area Hit Hard By Ban On Private Tankers While political parties take their time to figure out when to hold elections, Dwarka residents are paying the price for the absence of a government in the city. The area is getting only a third of the water required for the plus …
London is one of the most water-stressed cities in the world according to new research, which has mapped 500 large cities to determine how global urbanisation is affecting water supplies. London is ranked as the 15th most water-stressed city, behind Tokyo (1st), Delhi (2nd), Mexico City (3rd), Shanghai (4th) and …
Even while bureaucrats prepare reports on Yamuna riverfront development amid raging debate on the suitability of the Sabarmati model, a scientist from Jamia Millia Islamia has come out with a plan to use the river's floodplains for solving the capital's water crisis. Contrary to proposals of building on them and …
RAMGARH: Residents of Jameera and Bahatu in Ramgarh have a reason to cheer with public health engineering department (PHED) putting an end to their age-old water woes. The department has recently installed a solar energy-operated water pump in the region that can function without manual intervention. The pilot project, currently …
Shortages of shampoo and cooking oil are bad enough for residents of this teeming capital, but what they miss most now is water. A drought—and what President Nicolás Maduro's critics say is bad planning—has prompted the government to ration water across this capital. Nowhere has the shortage been as bad …
