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 …
NEW DELHI: A study of leading storage water purifier brands available in the Capital has revealed that none of them adheres to international standards of providing clean drinking water. Releasing the study,
Sales of water purification systems usually pick up with the onset of the monsoon as susceptibility to various diseases, including water-borne ones, rises. Kent RO Systems Ltd chairman Mahesh Gupta says, "Having a water purifier does not solve the problem. The real solution lies in selecting one which fulfils the …
MUMBAI: Eureka Forbes has launched a new product AquaSure for safe and pure drinking water. The product, AquaSure 3PCTi storage water purifier, is powered with SureKit Shield which is the result of the company's research for over a decade in providing safe drinking water. The company has been in the …
Residents of Uguem-Sanguem have complained of high level of turbidity in the drinking water supplied to them since the last many days. Since the last many months, residents of Uguem have been regularly complaining of muddy water being supplied to them. On one such occasion, villagers had resorted to an …
NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has voiced concern about the quality of drinking water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board after testing several water samples. The issue was raised at a meeting of the MCD Standing Committee. According to statistics provided by the civic body's Health Department, out …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi, already receiving flak for poor management during the monsoon season, on Wednesday claimed that more than 1,700 samples of water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board was unfit for drinking. The figures, furnished by the health department officials, led to allegations and counter allegations between …
METRO Water on Monda said the joint meeting of it officials and Corporation au thorities decided to raise th chlorine level and not the re sidual chlorine to 10 ppm i water distributed through th Metro Water system. "It is clarified that durin the joint meeting of the Cor poration …
Waterlife cleanses and purifies drinking water at an economical cost Tapash Talukdar tapash.talukdar@timesgroup.com BY A humble estimate, over 50,000 people in more than 250 villages of West Bengal last year were saved from falling prey to arsenicosis, a contaminated water-borne disease that may cause skin cancer. These villagers had adopted …
VIRUDHUNAGAR: Residents of ward 21 of Virudhunagar town have complained of sewage mixing with drinking water supplied through pipeline. The residents fumed that drinking water was being supplied only two times a month in the town. And even that little water was not usable for any purpose, a resident said. …
Delhi is an old town, which has gradually grown into a populous city. It is one of the important business centers of India and thickly populated as well. Since the last decade, drinking water problem has created havoc in the city. In this study, we collected 32 drinking water samples …
The Delhi high court has directed the Centre to constitute a taskforce to ensure compliance of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) norms for manufacturing and selling packed drinking water in the city. The court passed the direction after the complainant, Bottled Water Processors Association, moved the high court alleging …
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has constituted a seven-member task force to take stringent action against illegal water bottling plants operating in the city. Coordination
Installed at a cost of Rs.9 lakh, it can treat 9,000 litres every day New facility: Beach goers drink from the water purification plant that was inaugurated on the Marina beach on Tuesday. CHENNAI: Students of 25 more Chennai schools will get access to safe drinking water this year as …
Some weeks ago when Amit Biswas was handed a cup of water for the customary rinse-and-spit after a dental procedure he already knew the water’s source. Although his gums were hurting from the extraction of the wisdom molar he remembered what Pritpal Singh, dental surgeon and proprietor of Aradhana Clinic, …
June 10: Elected representatives including MPs, MLCs and MLAs from the city on Thursday accused officials of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) of failing to stop polluted drinking water from being supplied to the city. They also alleged that the Board was giving wrong figures on …
Eleven slum dwellers, including two children, were taken ill after drinking tap water on Wednesday. Of the 11 persons who displayed symptoms of water contamination like diarrhoea and vomiting, two were treated by the BBMP health officers while nine including two children were admitted to a private nursing home, said …
JORHAT, June 3: An unusually high content of iron in the groundwater of the Northeastern states has posed a serious threat to the people living in this part of the country. It is found that, almost all the states of the region contain iron above the permissible level in drinking …
Coming down heavily on illegal units manufacturing and selling bottled drinking water, the Delhi high court directed the government to tighten the noose around them. Justice S. Muralidhar directed the government agencies to crack down on units manufacturing and selling drinking water without a licence and the Bureau of Indian …
Twenty-two children from New Life Centre for Girls in Bharathinagar, took ill after consuming contaminated water on Wednesday. All were admitted to the CSI Hospital on Wednesday morning from where they were shifted to Epidemic Diseases Hospital on Thursday morning after the officials suspected the case to be a cholera …
