Report on behalf of Government of NCT of Delhi through Delhi Jal Board in compliance of NGT order dated December 22, 2023. The matter related to a news report (Hindustan Times, November 30, 2023) on arsenic present in groundwater in 25 states and fluoride in 27 states. Fluoride have been …
KENDRAPARA: Women carrying pitchers and trudging miles to fetch water is a common sight in the interior areas of Kendrapara these days. Water crisis has gripped the villages as summer slowly peaks. Due to over exploitation of groundwater over past few years, the water table has gone down drastically in …
BASIRHAT: Scarcity of drinking water has become an important issue in the upcoming civic elections in Basirhat municipality. People in Basirhat civic areas are suffering due to an acute water crisis as the ruling CPI-M led municipality has failed to supply water to these areas. The Opposition parties allege that …
Dumka, May 3: Water crisis of thousands of villagers in the region would soon be over with a voluntary organisation taking the initiative to make the government repair defunct tube-wells. With its limited resources, Janmat Research Centre first motivated its workers to conduct a survey of defunct hand pump sets …
BHUBANESWAR: The summer is taking its toll in Orissa. While over a 100 are reported to have fallen to sunstroke, acute shortage of water has emerged as the big worry for people in rain shadow and interior areas of the State. With a relentless heatwave across the districts throwing normal …
This report by ACWADAM is a synopsis of the hydrogeological study carried out for Bird-K in Pavagada, Sira and Bagepalli areas, Tumkur District, Karnataka. The study aimed at an impact analysis of recharge through borewells as well as suggesting new sites for the same. The principle objectives of the study …
An irrigation round in the last week of March could have saved the wheat crop from wilting. But around mid-March, when day and night time temperatures spiked, the state had no power to irrigate the fields and there was no water in canals either. As a result, experts do not …
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today expressed its deep concern over the deteriorating condition of Sukhna Lake. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice Jasbir Singh directed the UT Administration to make all possible efforts to ensure that the lake was protected from deterioration. Meanwhile, senior …
Keeping in view the widening gap between availability and demand of potable water in Mohali, the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) has begun work to install 10 new tubewells in different parts of the city. Accepting the request of the Mohali Municipal Council (MC), which had expressed inability to …
Newsline found another possible cause: dirt. Kharak Raveda village has no sewage network, its streets are full of cowdung, sewage and puddles; illegal supply lines are drawn from tubewells Kharak Raveda, a little known village in Chattarpur on the outskirts of Delhi, was in for a shock when seven-year-old Ashiq …
Use of high-capacity pumps for irrigation is lowering the groundwater table across the country to dangerous levels, says BHAVDEEP KANG IN THE Burhanpur district of central India, wealthy banana farmers draw water from depths of 700 to 800 feet, or lay individual pipelines 2-3 km long to irrigate their fields. …
MUMBAI: A day after three persons fell into a borewell in Mahim and died, the BMC on Friday issued an order that it was mandatory to secure its permission to dig borewells in the city. If the correct procedure is not followed, Mumbaikars will be liable to punishment. It was …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to install tube wells in every block of the State to deal with the shortage of drinking water in rural areas in during the summer. A decision to this effect was taken at a high level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik …
Bill To Be Tabled In Next Assembly Session New Delhi: Using grounwater without any care in the world? Your happiness may be short-lived. After much resistance from the opposition, the Sheila Dikshit government is determined to push the groundwater Bill that will make extraction of the precious resource chargeable. Speaking …
With no additional canal water, 15 new tubewells approved Mohali is short of 7 million gallons daily (MGD) water for drinking purposes and this figure shoots up to 10 MGD in peak summer (May to July). At present, 28 tubewells and Kajauli water quench thirst of over 3 lakh residents …
Pune In 2004, Dilip Mehta, a villager in Phursungi had to discontinue using water from his well. Reason: water was found to be unfit for consumption. Mehta said the well had been changing colour for years. Like Mehta, residents of Phursungi and Uruli Devachi and nearby villages claimed the garbage-dumping …
In order to ease water crisis in the city, Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) has formally approved the installation of 10 new tubewells in different parts of the city to quench the thirst of residents in the coming summer season. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who is also …
Punjab has been unable to make its revenue receipts keep pace with growing revenue expenditure due to its mounting debt burden. As a result, key areas like agriculture and the secondary sector are at standstill leading to a rise in fiscal deficit. The overall economy of the state has, however, …
Initiative to refill 44 of 50 tubewells using rainwater harvesting systems In a first-of-its-kind initiative, which brings together public and private investments for water supply, 44 dry tubewells
Deep tubewells in Kandi districts will be installed soon to optimally use the groundwater and overcome the problem of potable water scarcity in the areas. This was stated by Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control Taj Mohi-ud-Din in reply to clubbed questions by MLAs Mir Saifullah, Sajjad Kitchloo and …
Kinnow growers in Abohar have been forced to switch to cultivating vegetables; houses in villages have developed cracks The problem of rising levels of groundwater in Abohar has become a cause of concern. Thousands of residents as well as area under cultivation in 150 villages have been affected. Many have …
