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 …
AHMEDABAD : If you have had problems of water pressure at your home or office and resultant water shortage, you have the weak water system of the city to blame. However, there is a silver lining. All of this is set to be rectified. At least that is what Ahmedabad …
Several areas in Delhi may soon get respite from water scarcity as Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is all set to commission a new water treatment plants Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday reviewed the ongoing projects o the DJB and said there would be no dearth of funds for drinking …
The top layer of accumulated sand washed down by floods over millions of years, makes river floodplains into giant aquifers. We propose a scheme for the natural storage of excess monsoon river-water discharge in the extensive and deep sand top layer of the floodplain of the river. The excess monsoon …
NEW DELHI: Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president O.P. Kohli has urged the Delhi Government to ensure adequate supply of power and drinking water in the Capital this summer.
Mumbai Mumbai will have to wait till 2021 to meet its water requirement, according to the a projection by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). With rising population and increasing water demand, particularly for highrises and for re-development and other real estate projects, the BMC says it will be another 12 …
May 19: The Water Board (HMWS&SB;) swung into action on Tuesday following a Deccan Chronicle report about E. coli contamination in potable water in Marredpally and surrounding areas in the city. The officials collected water samples and told residents in the affected areas to report immediately to the Water Board …
Poornima Nataraj,DH News Service,Bangalore: As many as 4,29,898 households under new BBMP areas are yet to pay their water connection charges under the Greater Bangalore Water Supply Project (GBWSP), which was undertaken a year ago by the BWSSB to provide Cauvery water to them. Despite the interest-free installments facility, only …
May 18: E. coli contamination of drinking water has spread to new areas in the city because of the laxity of the Water Board and the GHMC. Samples from Marredpally, Addagutta and Azad Chandrasekhar Nagar have shown sufficiently large presence of E. coli bacteria, indicating mixing of human excreta with …
TWAD Board takes up laying of distribution pipelines In full swing: Workers laying new drinking water distribution pipeline at Bharathi Nagar in Salem.
Deepa H Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: With drinking water being supplied only once in five days, almost every container in homes in Tiruvottiyur is used to store water. Residents say that in the past one month the period of supply has been drastically reduced by half. V.Venmathi of Radhakrishnan Nagar said:
K. Lakshmi CHENNAI: The 30-km pipeline from the upcoming 100 million litres a day desalination plant near Minjur to Red Hills has been laid by the Chennai Metrowater recently. However, a portion of construction work of the plant is yet to be completed. Metrowater officials said the pipeline covering about …
DHAKA Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWSA) has earned a notoriety for claiming the largest share of road digging, and as if that was not enough, for supplying undrinkable water that even stinks in a large swathe of the metropolis. These sending livability index of Dhaka life further down, the …
Citizens of State capital are running from pillar to post in search of water as water has become a scarce commodity in the City but the service stations are indulging in criminal waste of water. Service stations are utilising thousands of litres of water every day by just paying Rs …
Residents who do not pay water bills may have supply cut off people living in Hubli have one more identity card now in addition to voter cards, pan cards and other cards. The water supply board is issuing tap cards to residents of the Karnataka city to ensure they pay …
Bengaluru needs a little political will and a lot of community-level initiatives Many years ago, weather used to be the icebreaker in conversations in Bengaluru. Traffic and its interminable snarls is the only subject every Bengalurean or visitor to the city talks of now. There are 3.5 million vehicles in …
End to indiscriminate digging of Dhaka's streets is in sight now as the new government yesterday launched a 'no-dig' pipeline-setting scheme involving a cost of Tk 1465 crore for water supply in the capital using a most modern technology. Implementation of the pilot project styled 'Dhaka Water Supply Development Project' …
May 12: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) has been sitting on dirty reservoirs for years now. There are 80 service reservoirs in the city where water is brought from the source and stored before being supplied to the citizens. Though the Board allocates money in its …
