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 …
Children from Sheopur collecting water.Children from Sheopur collecting water. Bhopal: In the eye of storm for malnourishment deaths, Sheopur district's large number of malnourished children and their families are forced to drink contaminated water from nullahs. More than 50 per cent villagers in Karhal block, one of the worst malnourished …
Adani UPCL has declared a record Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) grant of Rs 536 crore towards the development in six villages near to the thermal power plant in Udupi district. Of this, a sum of Rs 261 crore will be spent in the next 25 years for the first phase …
WUHAN - Severe drought in central China's Hubei province over the past three weeks has caused drinking water shortages for 237,000 people, local authorities said Saturday. The province received average precipitation of 10.5 mm since the beginning of the month, only 10 percent of the normal volume, the provincial flood …
The carcinogenic "Erin Brockovich" chemical has contaminated the drinking water supply of nearly 200 million Americans across all 50 states, a new report found. According to a new analysis from the non-profit research and advocacy organization Environmental Working Group (EWG), a program under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tested over …
It will have adequate representation from all States but will not have a voting system: Jha The Water Resources Ministry has begun the process of setting up a Cauvery Water Management Board (CWMB), though it might take beyond four weeks to finalise the chairman and the various members of the …
At a cost of just 12 paisa per litre, the process is cheaper than reverse osmosis; it offers an affordable and sustainable solution to water scarcity It may soon become possible to convert brackish water into drinking water at about 12 paisa per litre right on the kitchen table by …
The wait is finally over. Rourkela, considered Odisha’s industrial capital, has found a place in the third list of Smart Cities declared by the Centre on Tuesday. Sources said competing with 67 cities across the country, Rourkela found a place in the latest list of 27 Smart Cities and was …
The current water level in the dam is 84.75 ft, down from 105.57 ft in the corresponding period last year. The water level in the Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) reservoir, which is the main source of drinking water to Bengaluru, has dipped by 20% this year, in what is an ominous …
NASHIK: The civic body has decided to launch a special drive from September end to clean all water tanks in the city. The drive will be completed by December end. The administration said this at the general body meeting of the Nashik Municipal Corporation on Monday after the corporators alleged …
THE government has summoned Harare City Council to explain why the local authority is distributing contaminated water to residents, a senior civil servant has confirmed. Harare has long denied pumping out contaminated water despite several researches and laboratory tests by independent engineers confirming the pollution. Last year the Zimbabwe Lawyers …
The National Food Security and Nutrition (CONSEA) submitted this week recommendations to several federal and state agencies in an attempt to urgently resolve part of the problems faced by indigenous people of Mato Grosso do Sul living in different municipalities on the border of Paraguay. Among the recommendations, they asked …
As many as 150 water supply schemes with estimated expenditure of Rs 1716.59 crore under various components of Prime Minister Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY) submitted by the Himachal Government are awaiting approval from the Union Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR). The state Irrigation and Public Health Department had sent shelf …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala transport development finance corporation (KTDFC), which had been trying to secure a water supply connection for the newly-built KSRTC terminal at Thampanoor for almost a year, has now submitted a request to the PWD seeking water connection to the depot from a pipeline near the old Indian …
HYDERABAD: Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday directed officials to take steps to supply piped drinking water to all households under the Mission Bhagirath scheme by December 2017. The CM had convened a review meeting at his camp office to take stock of on-going work related to it. The …
A EWG analysis of federal data from nationwide drinking water tests shows that the compound contaminates water supplies for more than 200 million Americans in all 50 states. Yet federal regulations are stalled by a chemical industry challenge that could mean no national regulation of a chemical state scientists in …
Cape Town — Protecting Cape Town's "fynbos" against thirsty invasive plants should improve the city's water supply Cape Town is planning to launch a new fund by the end of 2017 that will improve its water supply by restoring the native shrubland plants covering the region's watersheds and aquifers. Amid …
The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a broad $10 billion water projects development bill that will help Flint, Michigan, deal with a long-running problem of lead contamination in the city's water supply. The Republican-majority Senate voted 95-3 in favor of the bill, which contains $100 million in loans and grants …
GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - From dusk till dawn, an ongoing stream of people crisscrosses La Petite Barriegrave;re, one of the two main borders that divide Rwanda and DRC. Women carry baskets full of vegetables, potatoes and fish. Men carry buckets of cow meat, the blood oozing down their …
MLC Ivan D’Souza said that the Central government should evolve a central water policy to guide the states on sharing of river water. Absence of such policy will only aggravate the inter-state water disputes in future, said D’Souza, who is also Chief Whip of the Government in the Legislative Council. …
Nagpur: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has swung into action against local manufacturing units selling unpackaged and unsealed potable water. On September 6, TOI had reported that the city has many water manufacturing units that are selling 'drinking' water in unpackaged and unsealed chilled cans and jars. All these …
