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 …
Prevent Jolarpet Municipality officials from going ahead with the work Ambalur villagers expressed their opposition to the move of the Jolarpet Municipality to dig five additional borewells in the Palar River in Ambalur panchayat near Vaniyambadi to tide over the drinking water scarcity of Jolarpet residents. On account of the …
The Thanjavur Municipality is taking all possible steps to provide drinking water to people without any problem, said Savithiri Gopal, Chairperson, Thanjavur Municipality, here on Wednesday. Responding to complaints made by councillors that drinking water scarcity existed in some wards, Ms. Gopal said that borewells were sunk at various places …
Liabilities of tank drivers piling up for 4 years KATHUA: The PHE Department’s failure to release the payment of private water tankers amounting to Rs 1 crore in Kathua district who in turn have stopped the supply of pottable water on credit basis coupled with breaking down of over 25 …
PUNE: Some parts of Satara district are still reeling under acute shortage of drinking water. The district administration's data reveals that the district still has 321 tankers supplying drinking water to 251 villages and 928 hamlets, located mainly in the eastern part of the district. The tehsils such as Mann, …
For residents of Iblur (near Sarjapur outer ring road), water crisis has become a way of life. They are heavily dependent on water tankers to meet their daily needs. The onset of monsoon has brought no respite to them. Mallikarjun, a resident, said: “For the past 30 years, the water …
Heavy rains that lashed the State’s coastal districts claimed five lives in Dakshina Kannada and two in Kasargod district on Tuesday. Four persons of a family were killed when a compound wall at a higher reach collapsed on their tiled roof houses below, in the wee hours of Tuesday, at …
Karnataka will soon take up the Yettinahole project to provide drinking water to Bangalore Rural, Kolar, Tumkur and Chikkaballapur districts shortly. Replying to a debate on the drinking water crisis in Kolar and adjoining districts, leader of the House in the legislative council on Tuesday said the government would quickly …
The government has sanctioned Rs 38 crore for sinking new borewells to mitigate the drinking water scarcity in the wake of drought situation in several parts of the State, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister H K Patil informed the Legislative Assembly on Monday. Replying to an issue raised by …
The state government will allot 25% of its budget every year for the next three years for projects to solve water scarcity in Maharashtra, said chief minister Prithviraj Chavan in Satara on Sunday. About Rs 30,000 crore will be earmarked in the budget and the state will seek a matching …
The Union agriculture ministry has asked the state government to submit a proposal to create more water storages infrastructure by investing Rs 60,000 crore over within the next three years. Such planning would tackle water scarcity in the drought-prone areas of the state. "The funds will be utilized to construct …
KANPUR: The drinking water supply situation in Kanpur south and other parts of the city is worsening. A number of local residents came out on streets to lodge protest against water scarcity in Kanpur south. Congress workers on Thursday staged a 'dharna' and gheraoed the general manager of Jal Sansthan. …
At the fifth meeting of the Upper Yamuna River Committee on Tuesday, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit reiterated her demand for a greater share of water from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. With the onset of summers and the accompanying water shortages, Dikshit requested the cooperation of both the Centre and basin …
Declaring that dams are the only possible source of water to meet the city’s future drinking needs, Delhi wants work related to the construction of dams on the Yamuna to be expedited. On Tuesday, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit told the Centre that work on Renuka, Lakhwar Vyasi and Kishau dams …
MUMBAI: Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on May 25 announced that Dena Bank has adopted 32 drought affected villages and provided 101 drinking water storage tanks in Aurangabad and Nashik districts in Maharashtra. The Finance Minister was at the platinum jubilee celebrations of Dena Bank. Dena Bank's Chairman & Managing …
Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister H K Patil has said that the government would release Rs 38 crore to solve the drinking water problem in rural areas. He was addressing a press conference here on Sunday. “The water shortage problem is severe in villages. The deputy commissioners have been …
PUNE: The district administration has appointed 13 squads, one for each taluka, to keep a check on illegal extraction of sand from rivers and its transportation following a rise in the number of cases of illegal transportation of sand. Besides, staff has been deployed at almost all check posts along …
The results of an ongoing survey of slums within the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation — which is almost complete — reveals high figures of unemployment, alcoholism, and drinking water shortage, highlighting the need for inclusive development, as promised by the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a ‘slum-free India’ programme by the Union government. …
BANGALORE: The water levels in Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) in Mandya district and Almatti in Bijapur, the lifelines for drinking water and irrigation in the Cauvery and Krishna basins, have almost touched dead storage. Tackling the escalating water crisis will be chief minister Siddaramaiah's first challenge. In Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli-Dharwad and …
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 …
With summer reaching its peak, the drinking water problem is intensifying in the tailend areas of the Krishna delta. The high levels, and increasing salinity content in wells is forcing villagers to depend on percolation pits (chalamas) in dry stream beds to get a pot of drinking water. Talupula Veeramma, …
