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 …
Vadodara:The Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) has demanded that Gujarat be declared drought affected and has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to visit the drought-affected areas of Gujarat. In its memorandum to the PM, SUCI has said that while the Central government has identified 10,000 villages out of 18,000 …
All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha (AIKMS) has launched a campaign against the acute crisis of potable water in the city and trans-Yamuna area. On Sunday, the Sabha accused the district administration of apathy and blamed state government of pursuing a water management policy that was anti-people. AIKMS general secretary Raj …
With the water supply shrinking in the city with the arrival of summer, the Himachal Pradesh government is planning to launch over Rs 500 crore scheme to ensure regular supply of water to the people in the state capital. “There is a scheme of Rs 516 crore to uplift the …
Authorities Deploy 136 Additional Tankers Pune: Shortage of drinking water has intensified in parts of Western Maharashtra with 1,026 villages in the four districts now dependent on tankers to meet their daily requirement of drinking water. The list of parched villages is only getting longer with the divisional commissioner’s office …
Pune: The drought-hit Kamkhera village in Beed taluka is all set to try rainwater harvesting, hoping it would end the dry spell. Half the wells in this village have dried up and villagers here have now invited Pune-based Paranjya to help set up two rainwater harvesting plants. Paranjya, that has …
PUNE: The rising temperature and shrinking water stocks in Marathwada region has forced the authorities to increase water supply by tankers. As many as 1,875 tankers are supplying drinking water to 1,646 villages and 749 hamlets in Marathwada. A week back, 1,413 villages and 743 hamlets were receiving drinking water …
After commissioning regulator-cum-bridge across Thejaswini A Rs. 50-crore project to assist localities that face drinking water shortage in Thrikkaripur due to intrusion of saline water will be commissioned shortly, said K. Kunhiraman, MLA. The project would be realized after commissioning the regulator-cum-bridge across the Thejaswini that would link Kayoor-Chemeni pachayath …
Hyderabad: Adding to the water woes of the city, drying borewells are cause for serious concern. As many as 208 of the total 977 power borewells and another 547 of the total 5,293 hand borewells have dried up a month before “peak summer” hits the city. Mobile tanker bookings have …
The government has opened 90 new water testing labs in the state, in addition to the 30 that operate at the district level. Having received over 2,500 cases of an unidentified fever in the past one year from rural areas, the public health department acquired space in state-run rural and …
PUNE: Water expert Rajendra Singh on Tuesday said that the Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad civic administrations need to draft a policy to restore rivers passing through city areas. He also stressed on the need to restrict encroachments on river beds which hamper flow of water and said that many rivers …
PUNE: As many as 3,184 villages and 7,650 hamlets are facing severe water shortage in the state, according to the latest report generated by the state government. About 3,793 tankers are currently supplying drinking water to these villages and hamlets periodically. Most of these villages and hamlets are from eastern …
Conscious of the growing demand for drinking water in urban areas in the coming weeks, the State administration is gearing up itself to tackle the situation by carrying out various works at a total cost of nearly Rs. 293 crore. With the failure of southwest and northeast monsoons in 2012, …
Residents of Jalna, who are reeling under severe drought, have found a way to beat the perennial water crisis. A group of traders, industrialists and residents have decided to replicate the famous Shirpur pattern on the Kundalika river. The group has asked geologist and water conservation Suresh Khanapurkar, who brought …
A parched paddy field at Puzhakkal near Thrissur.— PHOTO: K.C. Sowmish Many places in the district are facing acute water shortage as the mercury level is soaring. Water shortage is severe in Engandiyur, Nattika, Thriprayar, Chenthrapinni, Cherpu, Thannyam, Chazhur, Chalakudy, Anthicaud, Chelakkara, Vallathol Nagar, Desamangalam, Varavur and Panjal panchayats. Long …
Of the 7.2 lakh registered properties in Pune, only 1,411 have installed rainwater harvesting systems as of July 2012, statistics with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) show. It is a clear indication that despite the civic body's efforts to inculcate water conservation, citizens have shown little inclination. City-based experts and …
Of the 7.2 lakh registered properties in Pune, only 1,411 have installed rainwater harvesting systems as of July 2012, statistics with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) show. It is a clear indication that despite the civic body's efforts to inculcate water conservation, citizens have shown little inclination. City-based experts and …
BERHAMPUR: The government has decided to sink at least 45 tube-wells in the town and press more tankers into service to mitigate the drinking water problem this summer. Executive engineer of urban water supply (Berhampur) P K Mohapatra on Monday sought suggestions from the Berhampur Municipal Corporation to select water-starved …
At the honk of a water tanker, hundreds of women in Bedi village dash to Khari Chowk, leaving aside all other errands. In no time, the queue to fill water stretches for at least half a km and women – some in their 70s and some even pregnant – wait …
Saurashtra and Kutch regions parched, people battling odds to get even a pot of drinking water Narendra Modi may be on a campaign selling his model of governance but Gujarat is reeling under severe drought that has left Saurashtra and Kutch regions parched and people battling odds to get even …
TURA: In view of the severe water crisis in Tura and surrounding areas, West Garo Hills District Administration held a meeting with the lines departments, civil societies, Church leaders and locality development committees on Friday afternoon to discuss an urgent action plan to tide over the current water crisis. The …
