Delhi—a city and union territory of India containing the country’s capital, New Delhi—continues to grow in population, posing challenges to civic agencies in the provision of citizens’ essential needs.
City dwellers are facing acute water crisis as the Sylhet City Corporation can supply only 21 lakh litres of water per day against the demand of more than 65 lakh litres. Apart from technical faults, frequent load-shedding and low-voltage also seriously hamper the utility service in the city, sources in the city corporation said, adding that the authorities concerned can now provide less than one-third of required water.
The BJP and the Congress' politics over Hogenakkal is undermining national integrity EVEN IN normal circumstances, the regional chauvinistic politics of Karnataka can be detestable. With the state assembly elections round the corner, it has only worsened. Tamil Nadu government's Hogenakkal drinking water project has provided the platform to whip up sentiments in both the states. The project, when completed, would provide safe drinking water to people in the arid districts of Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri in Tamil Nadu. Ground water in this region is contaminated
Mayor, Sunil Sood along with municipal commissioner, Nikunj Kumar Shrivastava and additional commissioner, Arvind Dubey with a view to ensuring drinking water arrangement reviewed in zone 8 and 12 and gave necessary directives to the officials. Local corporators and zonal officers and water supply officials were present in the meeting. Sood directed to the officials to provide sufficient water supply in all the wards under zone 8. He talked the officials about the supplying water through tankers in ward No. 64 and strictly directed about availability of drinking water.
Summers make water, particularly its scarcity, a fiery issue in urban life. But a young man has made it more than that: He has made water his mission. In fact so driven is C S Sharada Prasad about understanding the extent of the looming water crisis in the country, that he has embarked on a breathtaking journey, straddling 28 states and covering 19,000km in 75 days on a motorcycle. Covering also five Union Territories, this modernday odyssey has a tag: K2K, or from Kashmir to Karnataka.
National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) of Sri Lanka has decided not to enforce the pre decided 15 per cent value added tax (VAT) charges on consumer bills, from this month onwards. NWSDB was initially planning to pass on this 15 per cent VAT charges to consumers, having being directed by the Department of Inland Revenue. However, with an urgent directive given by the Ministry of Water Supply and Drainage, the plans of doing so has been stopped with immediate effect, which is considered as a relief for the consumers.
In a major move, the state government has shelved the proposed Krishna Phase-III project and replaced it with the Godavari project to bring 10 tmc of water in phase-I from the Sripada Sagar reservoir in Yellampalli in Karimnagar district. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has invited tenders for the execution of the Rs 3,300 crore project to bring Godavari water to the city.
The Sindh High Court Sukkur bench has directed the Sindh Environment Department to test the quality of drinking water being supplied in Sukkur and submit a report within a week. The bench, comprising Justice Dr Rana Mohammad Shamim and Justice Farrukh Zia G. Shaikh, issued these directives on Wednesday, on a petition filed by a Sukkur-based journalist, Lala Asad Pathan, through his lawyer, Ghulam Shabbir Shar, stating that the water being supplied in Sukkur was contaminated and unfit for human consumption.
27 Assam Rifles has dedicated a water storage tank with pipeline to Ghukhiye village under Zunheboto district in Nagaland, stated a press release.
A large number of localities were deprived of drinking water on Tuesday without prior intimation. Water was not released to about 70,000 connections in Vijaynagar Colony, Humayunnagar, Red Hills, Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills, Old Mallepally, Allabanda, Asifnagar, Rajendernagar municipal circle areas and surrounding localities. These areas had gone without water for four days last week after Krishna water pipeline burst at Lenin Nagar.
The Delhi Jal Board, which is courting consumers with the promise of additional water from its soon-to-be-commissioned recycling plants and as largesse from the neighbours, will have to work doubly hard to meet the demands of people in four areas designated as most critical.
