Centre declares 2007 as Water Year
The Centre has declared 2007 as “Water Year” in a bid to bring sustained focus on the need to augment irrigation potential and to strengthen food security. This assumes significance in the backdrop of the large number of farmer suicides in the recent past. Union water resources minister Saifuddin Soz …
Parliament passes bill to privatize valley water distribution
The House of Representatives, passed a bill that aims to privatize the distribution of drinking water in the Kathmandu Valley. The Amendment of the Nepal Drinking Water Act was approved by the parliament by majority. Lawmakers belonging to Nepali Congress, NC (Democratic) and the Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) backed the …
Water-wasting department face audit
Water Minister John Thwaites has branded an increase in water use by government departments as "totally unacceptable", warning that agencies will face auditing of their consumption. The Opposition has called on the government to impose restrictions on its departments as well as auditing their usage. The revelations come as Victorians …
Rs 54.21 cr for water supply scheme
The Haryana government has sanctioned Rs 54.21 crore for the augmentation of drinking water supply in the district, Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda said in Rohtak today. Talking to newspersons after inaugurating a boosting station inside the sugar mill premises he said come summer and barring a few colonies no …
Port Blair faces water shortage
The Port Blair Municipal Council on Tuesday announced curtailment in water supply following the fast dropping water level in the Dhanikhari Dam, the lone water reservoir in South Andaman. Inadequate rainfall during November-December had led to the drastic fall in the water level at the dam.
