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 …
Residents of several colonies including those of Madhapur near Hitech city area are being supplied with water mixed with faecal matter by Hyderabad Metro- politan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB). As per the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) reports, almost all major colonies have an abnormal Most Probable Number …
May 7: The biological analysis of water samples from Bholakpur revealed abnormal presence of E.coli which is found in human faeces. According to health experts, water that has high E.coli content is unfit for human consumption. In all, seven persons have died and 300 others were hospitalised after drinking contaminated …
HYDERABAD: It is supposed to be the elixir of life. But consumption of contaminated water claimed five lives and led to the hospitalisation of over 200 persons in Bholakpur locality in the Andhra Pradesh capital on Tuesday. As news of people falling sick spread, tension gripped Bholakpur and surrounding areas …
Seven persons, three of them children, died and 200 others were hospitalised after they consumed contaminated water in Bholakpur and its adjoining areas in the heart of the new city. They had consumed water supplied by the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board at taps in their homes. The …
May 5: An irate mob attacked the MP, Mr Anjan Kumar Yadav, and Water Board officials at Bholakpur on Tuesday after six persons of the area died of consuming contaminated water. Police had to use force to disperse the agitating residents and the human rights commission sought a report from …
May 5: In a shameful incident, six persons, three of them children, died and 200 others were hospitalised after they consumed contaminated water in Bholakpur and its adjoining areas in the heart of the new city. They had consumed water supplied by the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board …
Training in integrated water and sanitation planning will be organised in Gaibandha Municipality under a joint project of the Government, UNICEF and DFID, officials said. The project titled Sanitation, Hygiene Education and Water Supply in Bangladesh (SHEWAB) began in the municipality in July, 2008. The aim of the project is …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the scorching summer heat triggering a soaring demand for drinking water, much more than what the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) can purify and supply, a high-level meeting held here on Thursday charted out an action plan to bring water to the parched high-level areas and other regions of …
This article offers an inventory of the risk of potential hazards to water resources and its implications to human and ecological receptors that may result from the climate change with special reference to India, a developing country. It is a study-based approach analysing various studies undertaken earlier in the field …
This article offers an inventory of the risk of potential hazards to water resources and its implications to human and ecological receptors that may result from the climate change with special reference to India, a developing country. It is a study-based approach analysing various studies undertaken earlier in the field …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is losing money hand over fist. More than 56 per cent of the total water supplied in Delhi during the last five years did not fetch the DJB any revenues, resulting in losses of over Rs 1,990.54 crores. The CAG report …
Ahmedabad : Residents of Swastik Tenements near Indira bridge in Hansol are being made to live without clean drinking water for last three months. The residents say sewage is leaking into their main water line. They have been forced to use contaminated water despite repeated complaints to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation …
K.Lakshmi Residents in some areas complain water supplied through pipes is mixed with sewage Arrest mixing of sewage in drinking water pipelines Water main will be flushed out, say Metrowater officials CHENNAI: Residents of a few pockets across the city are forced to depend on private water suppliers despite receiving …
P M Raghunandan,DH News Service,Bangalore: Political parties may run short of any serious issue to raise at the hustings. But, severe shortage of drinking water has become an issue of great concern for the electorate across the State, including Bangalore. Almost all the districts are hit by scarcity of potable …
Beginning Friday, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will supply water for an additional half an hour from 5.30 pm onwards. A circular was issued on Thursday in this regard after the Gujarat election commission gave a go ahead for the supply. AMC convinced the state election officer that the half hour supply …
Reports of a fortnight-long closure by Uttarakhand had set off panic in Delhi Staff Reporter NEW DELHI: Attempting to quell public alarm over a reported two-week shutdown of water supply to the Capital by the Uttarakhand Government, the Delhi Jal Board on Tuesday clarified that the water utility is yet …
Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Tuesday restored two million gallons daily (MGD) water supply to Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) from Khanpur Dam that was cut off in January. The CDA had reduced the supply from nine MGD to seven MGD as the RCB had failed to pay its share of …
Hyderabad, April 14: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has started commercial sale of canned water. The Board will initially confine the sale to government offices and institutions. The Board
For provision of clean drinking water, the government of Pakistan has successfully completed the drinking water scheme in Jawaki Shin Dand Village, Frontier Region Kohat, which directly benefits 6,400 persons. The project was identified by the community in a meeting with the local political administration. The APA ordered immediate work …
