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 …
Setback in supply cycle leaves residents in deep trouble The two major drinking water supply schemes, the Coimbatore - Siruvani and scheme and the Pilloor scheme have one thing in common. Both depend on external factors. In Siruvani, the storage, depending on rainfall, decides supply. Pilloor suffers breakdown at frequent …
JOWAI: Public Health Engineering Minister, Shitlang Pale on Monday laid down the foundation stone of Ummulong –Moodymmai combined Water Supply Scheme worth Rs. 20.90 crore funded under the National Rural Drinking Water Supply Programme (NRDWP) by the Ministry of Rural Development. Local MLA, Sniawbhalang Dhar who presided over the foundation …
The fourth round of dialogue between Washington and Islamabad on water issues came to a close on Wednesday without any financial commitments by the US officials to improve water management issues in Pakistan, well placed sources informed Daily Times. Sources said that water and power managers tabled their constraints for …
It has become common for residents to enquire if they got water supply whenever they meet as water scarcity has become a major problem in the city. A view of the water tank in Chamarajanagar. Cursing the district administration for poor water supply, the residents complain that the water is …
The world's population of seven billion is set to rise to at least 10 billion by 2100, but could top 15 billion if birth rates are just slightly higher than expected, the United Nations said on Wednesday. In a report ahead of ceremonies on October 31 to mark the seven …
SHILLONG: Commissioning of the Greater Shillong Water Supply Scheme (GSWSS) Phase III is likely to be delayed since only 35 per cent of the work has been completed till date. The phase III, which is expected to ease the water scarcity problem in Shillong, was earlier scheduled to be commissioned …
Climate change and population growth in the United States will make having enough fresh water more challenging in the coming years, an expert on water shortages said on Wednesday. "In 1985-1986 there were historical (water level) highs and now in less than 25 years we are at historical lows. Those …
The world's governments and relief agencies need to plan now to resettle millions of people expected to be displaced by climate change, an international panel of experts said on Thursday. Resettlement is already occurring at the rate of some 10 million people a year, said the report's lead author, Alex …
The Earth's natural resources like food, water and forests are being depleted at an alarming speed, causing hunger, conflict, social unrest and species extinction, experts at a climate and health conference in London warned Monday. Increased hunger due to food yield changes will lead to malnutrition; water scarcity will deteriorate …
Severe stress on food, water and jobs She's a 40-year-old mother of eight, with a ninth child due soon. The family homestead in a Burundi village is too small to provide enough food, and three of the children have quit school for lack of money to pay required fees. “I …
Residents pin hopes on to-be-elected civic body Drinking water scarcity and mosquito menace are the biggest problems requiring urgent attention by the Corporation Council to be formed after the October 17 local body elections in most of the nine village panchayats annexed to the Vellore Corporation. Besides the two municipalities …
Project to lay second water pipeline yet to be implemented Inaccessibility to drinking water is a cause for serious concern among people of Kayalpatnam, a Second Grade Municipality, which houses an eighty percent of Muslim populace. People are getting drinking water only once in five days or seven days.. Though …
The United Nations has placed Pakistan among the ‘water hotspots’ of Asia-Pacific region, saying that the country is facing major threats of increasing water scarcity, high water utilisation, deteriorating water quality and climate change risk. Changes in weather patterns across the world have increased occurrences and intensities of extreme events …
The intervention of the State government will be sought to solve the drinking water crisis in the city. Mayor Tony Chammany informed the Kochi Corporation Council on Monday that he would seek a meeting with the Water Resources Minister to find a solution for the issue. Several councillors complained that …
The areas have not received water for the last 20 days, they say Drinking water shortage has become acute in many parts of the city and its peripheral areas. On Monday, the residents of Krishna Nagar, J.J.Nagar, Vaiklaveedu and Puliyangadu resorted to road blockade agitation along the Tirupur-Coimbatore highway in …
To solve water woes that the devotees might face while visiting Shirdi, the Shirdi Sai Sansthan has decided to undertake a drinking water project worth Rs100 crore. Work on the water project will commence within the next six months and is expected to be completed in the next two years. …
A team of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, an international health research institution in Dhaka, has provided its assistance to famine-hit Somalia people to fight cholera. On September 11, the ICDDR,B emergency cholera response team travelled from their base in Nairobi to Somalia’s beleaguered capital Mogadishu to …
NOIDA: The water supply in the city is expected to improve after the Noida Jal Board on Monday commissioned a new underground reservoir in sector 63 with a capacity of 1,500 kilolitres. "This reservoir will supply water exclusively for residents of Bahlolpur, a village near sector 63," said an official. …
FOR the past two years 1,500-odd families in a small town of Tripura have not received a modest drinking water supply. Reason: a dispute over water withdrawal from the Feni river, the international border between India and Bangladesh. Though the Feni passes through Sabroom, the town entirely depends on groundwater. …
Kolkata With West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee raising objections to the draft of a 15-year agreement with Bangladesh on the sharing of Teesta river water, the Centre has decided to put it on hold. According to the draft, India and Bangladesh will share the water in the ratio of …
