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 …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan has been allotted 13 per cent of the total funds for providing drinking water the Centre claimed on Monday. Union minister for rural development, drinking water and sanitation minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said that the Centre has sanctioned the highest allocation of Rs 1,300 crore to the …
The Federal capital is facing an acute shortage of some 98 million gallons of water per day. Its daily requirement is 180 million gallons. Some of the city’s sectors have lost complete access to drinking water – clean or otherwise! CDA sources told Daily Times that the total requirement of …
Wars keep children out of school. So does sickness. But in Niger, a sun-baked land where drought occurs with alarming frequency, a major impediment to education is thirst and the long trek required to quench it. The school day had already begun on a recent morning as a procession of …
The shortage of drinking water has long been a threat to the development and future of country's capital, but a recent report suggests turning seawater into fresh water could turn the tide to an old problem in Beijing. The cost of desalinating sea water - to make it safe to …
Millions of Indians are facing a new health risk. Increasing water scarcity is forcing farmers to grow vegetables and fodder using untreated sewage waste water across urban and rural cities. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FAAI) has in the past issued several warnings on pesticide residues and …
JOWAI: Unscientific limestone mining in War-Jaintia, Amlarem Sub-Division in Jaintia Hills has become a cause of concern for residents of Nongtalang village and its surrounding villages who are facing an impending water scarcity in the area. A huge quantity of limestone is exported to Bangladesh via Tamabil on a daily …
PARADIP: Jagatsinghpur district has been witnessing a steep decline in groundwater level. The quality of water also deteriorated. Sources said groundwater level in the district has gone down to a great extent following unrestricted drawing of water by industries in the area. In the last few years hundreds of industries …
Pakistan is among the 17 countries of the world that may face severe shortage of water by 2025, therefore, reuse of wastewater after proper treatment will be the future option. It was stated by the Vice Chancellor (VC) Quaid-i-Azam University, Prof Dr Masoom Yasinzai during a seminar organised by Department …
Imphal, May 17: Three departments of the Manipur government — public health engineering (PHE), irrigation and flood control and forest — are about to join forces under one policy, set to be initiated by the PHE to conserve the state’s water resources. “A joint meeting of the three departments will …
Due to the erratic monsoon in 2011 and rising summer heat, Maharashtra's water supply position has come down to 19 per cent of the total capacity of dams in the State. Last year, it was 32 per cent and in 2010, it was 21 per cent. In the water-surplus Konkan …
VELLORE: The district administration has taken a major initiative to rejuvenate the traditional water bodies and their inlet channels from the catchment areas at a cost of Rs 1.82 crore under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) Scheme. Besides this, the authorities also proposed to remove the …
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday stated that the Centre is planning to set up 10,000 solar-based water systems in 78 districts, which are affected by Maoist violence. The plan is in a bid to solve the drinking water woes of people in the Left-Wing Effected (LWE) districts, …
Bangalore: Power struggle, politicking and blame game are keeping state BJP leaders busy. And there is no one to pay attention to the problems faced by drought-hit people in the districts. The chief minister, his colleagues and party legislators should have been helping out people of 123 drought-affected taluks. Instead, …
GUWAHATI: The people of Rajbari, Tamulbari, Tintukra, Rail Gate, Bonda, Birkuchi and Sankar Gaon villages under Kamrup (Metro) have been suffering from the non-availability of pure drinking water. People of these villages say that though drinking water is being supplied to the villages through a 34.25-km long pipe built under …
The Chittagong Water and Sewerage Authority is embarking upon four mega projects at a cost of Tk 4143 crore to mitigate water crises for next 50 years which were shelved for a decade, official sources said on Thursday. The construction work of the Karnaphuli water supply projects had already started …
With the onset of the scorching summer, would-be brides fight shy of getting married into families in two villages in Gujarat because they have to trudge long distances each day to fetch water in intense heat. The acute water crisis that stares at Jetpur and Devaliya villages in Vadodara district …
KOCHI: The state government will allocate Rs 750 crore, apart from the Rs 200 crore allotted under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, to solve the water woes in the district, said Water Resources Minister P J Joseph here on Monday. Speaking after a high-level meeting convened to sort …
Water woes for Bangaloreans will continue with fresh government data demonstrating that the current level of water supply in India's IT capital is almost four thousand million cubic metre short of the requirement, exposing 22 lakh people to water scarcity every year. Every drop countsThe shortfall is in the prevailing …
All eyes in the Nashik forest department are on the man-versus-beast conflict playing out in the district. The two recent attacks by leopards in the village of Shivare, near Niphad(about 35km from Nashik), just 25 days apart, have not come as a surprise to many. G Saiprakash, chief conservator of …
Sounding an alarm bell, Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan on Friday warned of a severe water crisis if the state government failed to complete the pending and on-going irrigation projects on schedule. Expressing serious concern over the prevailing drought situation in several pockets of Maharashtra, the governor said many irrigation projects …
