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 …
Raipur: In order to deal with receding ground-water level that has led to a drinking water crisis in many parts of Chhattisgarh, the State Government has launched a three-year
KOLKATA, 18 May: Despite the Mayor, Mr Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya, promising an improvement in the supply of potable water in the city, water woes continue to haunt city dwellers. Projects worth over Rs 300 crore have been mooted and initiated during the five years of the Left Front's tenure ~ …
Projects worth over Rs 300 crore have been mooted by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to ensure a comprehensive solution to the water scarcity problem in different pockets of the city, but faulty planning coupled with lethargy and legal complications have ensured non-completion and faulty implementation of these schemes. With …
Rajahmundry, May 17: Villagers are likely to face a shortage of drinking water as the existing water levels in summer storage tanks are gradually depleting and irrigation authorities are planning to extend the reopening of the canals beyond 45 days as per the original schedule for taking up maintenance works …
V. Venkatasubramanian KANCHEEPURAM: Residents of Kancheepuram Municipality have started feeling the pinch of drinking water shortage with a sudden and steep reduction in daily water supply duration. Normally, daily protected piped water supply would be maintained for two to three hours or even for four hours on weekends and on …
Lehra Gaga (Sangrur): With mercury continuing to rise every passing day, residents of Lehra Gaga in Sangrur district are grappling with water shortage.Locals say not only are they face water shortage every 2-3 months, especially during summer, but even when the water is supplied, it is laden with high fluoride …
Drinking water scarcity in the region seems to have created a drought like situation. The matter of fact is that as many as 73 areas including 22 urban cities, 31 villages and 20 other colonies in five districts of Kumaon division are reeling under severe water crisis , while as …
A mammoth rally against prevailing water crisis in Indore has been organized by the Purvottar Bharatiya Sanskritik Parishad in the city here on Friday. The rally will commence from Rajwada at 10 am on Friday and after passing through the MG Road, will culminate at the office of the divisional …
Water crisis in Khulna city has turned acute as Khulna Wasa can supply only half of two crore ten lakh litres of water that is required for 15 lakh city dwellers. The crisis is most acute in areas under Daulatpur, Khalishpur and Khan Jahan Ali police Stations. Long queues of …
The drinking water problem in ward no 22 in the city has aggravated. The people in this region have no choice but to walk long distances to collect water from farms. People collecting water from a well in a farm on the outskirts of Chikkaballapur. DH PHOTO Since the last …
Adilabad, May 11: The shortage of drinking water is so acute in the remote Adivasi habitations (gudems) in the Agency are that it forced the district administration to relocate the gudems to nearby plain areas to save lives. The severe drinking water problem and water contamination, which resulted in Adivasi …
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS We are boiling drinking water now, following the advice of Corporation officials. But, if they had warned us in time, may be the number of cases could have been reduced DESPITE the Corporation and the Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board popularly known as Metrowater washing …
As many as 236 villages in 13 districts of the State have been reeling under acute drinking water shortage. A sum of Rs 19 crore has been released to supply water through tankers to these villages. Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Jagadeesh Shettar said on Thursday said that depletion …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI Now the Samajwa di Party has joined the race to show concern for the backward Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh. Sources said this was an attempt by the SP to pick up an issue with both the Congress and the BSP, who are already locked in …
ROURKELA: The parched Sundargarh district, which was heading for a deeper water crisis, heaved a sigh of relief after a good spell of rain last night and this morning. Except the district headquarters town of Sundargarh, other parts of the district reported heavy to moderate rainfall leading to a rise …
G Manjusainath A mixture of revenue and well-developed layouts, the Uttarahalli ward craves for basic amenities. The ward boasts of three major tanks, Uttarahalli Tank, Dorekere and Shettykere at Thurahalli, but none of them are presently in good shape. Although the government had initiated some plans to revive Uttarahalli tank …
Shishir Prashant / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun May 5, 2010, 0:44 IST Here is good news for the water-starved Uttarakhand. After more than four years of experiments and research, a European Union river bank filtration (RBF) project has ignited new hopes to end the perennial drinking water problem in the …
KENDRAPARA: Women carrying pitchers and trudging miles to fetch water is a common sight in the interior areas of Kendrapara these days. Water crisis has gripped the villages as summer slowly peaks. Due to over exploitation of groundwater over past few years, the water table has gone down drastically in …
The wait for additional water may get longer for the city. At a meeting of the Chief Secretaries of Punjab and Haryana, the Executive Officer, Cantonment Board, Chandimandir, and the Adviser to the UT Administrator, the Punjab government made no commitment on the volume of water that would be released …
