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 …
New Delhi Mumbai and Delhi which are presently reeling under water crisis will require the maximum supply of the municipal tap water in the world by 2025, according to a Mckinsey Global Institute report. Mumbai tops the list of the 20 global cities in terms of municipal water demand in …
Millions of residents living in China's rural areas still don't have access to safe drinking water. However, the issue is expected to be solved by the end of 2015, according to a report released by the State Council. About 323 million rural residents had no access to safe drinking water …
Muktsar: With the Irrigation Department stopping water supply to Arniwala minor without any prior announcement, a large number of paddy growers in the district are in trouble. They are now facing a shortage of water to transplant paddy saplings in their fields. The department stated that the supply had been …
First product from India under Unilever’s global sustainable living plan initiative Hindustan Unilever is test marketing an after-wash laundry brand known as Magic that the company claims reduces water usage by twothirds. Magic is used for rinsing clothes and is the first product to have emerged from India as part …
The water crisis much of Salt Lake had reeled under during summer has ended with the civic body carrying out a basic task it had neglected for long — cleaning up the clogged pipelines. Bidhannagar Municipality, flooded with complaints of water shortage from across the township for the past four …
New Delhi: The severe water shortage in the city has begun to take a toll on urgent health services. At Bara Hindu Rao, the largest municipal hospital in the city, more than 40 surgeries were cancelled over the past week because water could not be arranged for the procedures. Doctors …
Delhi on Wednesday signed an agreement with Singapore to set up waste water treatment plants that will generate ‘new water’ for the city’s consumption. ‘New Water’ as it is popularly called is treated sewage and waste water that is being increasingly used in cities where water is in short supply. …
RAJOURI: The traders and local people from Rajouri town held massive protest demonstration against the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department at main chowk here today. They were protesting against the concerned authorities for their utter failure to provide drinking water to the people of Rajouri town. The agitators shouted loud …
The Delhi Jal Board on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) with an aim to recycle and reuse waste water in a major way to help meet the growing demand of the city. DJB officials said the Singapore agency would set up a facility …
Both sides maintain it was a “cordial meeting” and outstanding issues will be sorted through discussions After weeks of trading allegations and a two-hour meeting between the Chief Ministers of the two States on Monday, the ongoing water sharing dispute between Delhi and Haryana was eventually attributed to “heat”, “high …
Amidst reports of the neighbouring state cutting water supply to Delhi, Haryana claimed Sunday that it was releasing double of its legitimate share of water to the national capital. Stating this here, chief engineer of Yamuna Water Services, Haryana irrigation department in Delhi, Anand Kumar said Delhi’s legitimate share of …
Sheila and Hooda meeting today to resolve the problem There was no end to the city's water crisis on Sunday, or to the bickering between Haryana and Delhi administrators over water sharing. On Sunday Haryana added another accusation to the ongoing allegations-counter allegations story; it said the city's water supplier …
New Delhi:Residents in many colonies may be struggling for their daily share of water, but so severe is the crisis in the agricultural belt of the capital — Najafgarh — that farmers have been forced to sell their lands and change crop patterns. Officials at the sub-registrar’s office in Najafgarh …
Haryana claims it is already giving Delhi double its agreed share. If Delhi wants to muddy the waters this sweltering summer and pass the buck despite getting more than double its share of agreed water supply from Haryana, the state is unwilling to be the national capital's punching bag. At …
We have already written to the Prime Minister: Sheila Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Friday that her government would be approaching the Supreme Court for relief in the matter of Yamuna water supply if Haryana does not change its ways. Ms. Dikshit said she did not want a confrontation …
Rainwater can be a potential alternative source for tackling acute water crisis faced by rural and urban people, said experts yesterday. Store and reuse of rainwater will also help costal people tackle issue of salinity and reduce excessive pressure on groundwater, which is the major source of drinking water, they …
As the scarcity of surface water is hitting a critical level with the steady fall in ground water level as well, experts are now laying emphasis on harvesting rain water to carry out essential household services and irrigate land where it is possible. The concept is not new, but the …
Mumbai: With no sign of the monsoon, water levels in the lakes that supply drinking water to Mumbai are running low forcing the government to consider diverting water meant for agriculture to the city. "Levels in the lakes which supply water to Mumbai are lowest in the past three years," …
The water problem in the city is expected to worsen with the level at the Wazirabad pond dipping two feet below its optimum level on Wednesday. The Capital is already struggling with acute water shortage for the past 15 days, due to an alleged curtailment in supply by Haryana to …
With Delhi reeling under acute shortage of water, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday sought an early solution to the Munak canal dispute with Haryana and said she would seek Prime Minister’s intervention on the matter. The comments by Ms Dikshit came a day after Haryana turned down Delhi government’s …
