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 …
Pune Considering that the situation of water availability might get worse due increasing heat of the summer, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to rope in another fleet of 100 water tankers to cater to the needs of the residents, especially on the outskirts. Pramod Nirbhavne, water supply chief …
The family members of the victims have alleged that the children took ill after drinking the water distributed by a private water tanker early on Friday Two minor boy succumbed at Safdarjung hospital on Friday evening after consuming water distributed by a private water tanker in a south Delhi locality. …
A considerable portion of the wall lining the open canal that runs between the Shiva anaicut (Shivanasamudra in Mandya district) and the Netkal Balancing Reservoir (NBR) and carries Cauvery waters to Bangalore breached recently. As a consequence, water supply to the entire City will be shut down till Saturday. Many …
Although Bangladesh receives plenty of rainwater during its monsoon, both rural and urban areas suffer from shortages of safe drinking water during dry season. Arsenic contamination of ground water affects many rural areas, whilst some urban areas including the capital, Dhaka City, lack sufficient potable ground water to meet the …
A fire broke out at a pesticide plant of Bayer CropScience in Ankleshwar, Gujarat, on March 11, killing an engineer on duty and spewing toxic gases that engulfed three villages for 24 hours. Regional officer of Gujarat Pollut-ion Control Board, M S Shukla, said a leakage in the storage tank …
Mumbai The six lakes that supply water to Mumbai have 40 per cent less in stock than at the same stage last year. Already struggling with frequent pipeline bursts and leaks, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has more bad news from its data on Modak Sagar, Tansa, Vihar, Tulsi, Upper Vaitarna …
Twenty-five issued challans in Vasnt Kunj Drive to be launched in other parts of Delhi NEW DELHI: Water consumers who switch on their motors to fill their overhead tanks and then forget to switch them off will now have more to worry about than just inflated power bills. The Delhi …
G Manjusainath, Bangalore, Apr 11, DHNS: Even before the swearing-in could begin for the new corporators of Bruhat Baangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the job of the Congress Corporator from Devarajeevanahalli ward R Sampath Raj has already begun. Ever since he got elected, he claims to be supplying water to his …
Mumbai In the expected dry summer ahead, the cause for concern is not just the quantity of water but its quality, too. The number of complaints of water contamination from January to March is 30 per cent higher than the number for the same period last year, according to BMC …
Mumbai Pipeline bursts :33 major ruptures this year till April 1, many smaller ones In a growing nightmare for a city facing the start of a long, parched summer, the water distribution network has seen 33 pipeline bursts and 64 heavy leakages over the past three months, resulting in the …
Ten wards in the City are slated to have continuous water supply 24 hours a day throughout the week, if a pilot project planned by BWSSB in this connection succeeds. This is part of an ambitious initiative undertaken by the Board to supply water to all 198 wards of the …
S Lalitha, Bangalore, April 1, DH News Service: When the Second Phase of the Cauvery Stage IV project gets commissioned by 2011 end, the City will end up utilising every drop of the 19 TMC feet of water allocated to it by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. It means end …
This report is part of a larger World Bank effort that seeks to provide analytical and strategic assistance to Bank staff and utilities in client countries as they begin to consider the implications of climate change on water resources. The key objectives of this document are to: improve understanding and …
Smriti Kak Ramachandran NEW DELHI: Taking a cue from the power distribution companies, the Delhi Jal Board too is in the process of initiating Lok Adalats to settle pending disputes and recover outstanding bills. In about a month's time from now, the water utility for the first time will organise …
Water supply will be affected in the following parts of the City on Thursday (April 1) and Friday (April 2) due to emergency maintenance works to be undertaken for the pipelines of Cauvery IInd Stage: South and South East: Banashankari, Padmanabha Nagar, Hoskere Halli, Poorna Prajna Layout, Chikkalasandra, Bhuvaneshwari Nagar, …
Bangaloreans are reeling under an acute water shortage like never before. Borewells are drying up, water mafias are invading neighbourhoods and street wars triggered by water problems are breaking out everywhere. With the City bursting at its seams, the water crisis is surely not going to disappear in a hurry. …
SHILLONG, March 31: Meghalaya Chief Minister DD Lapang today dedicated the Nongpoh urban water supply scheme to the people of the area and praised the Central Government for the Rs 17,46,72,500-project. The water supply scheme is aimed at providing potable drinking water for 45,000 people of 14 villages in and …
The planet is a long way from dying of thirst. "It's inevitable that we'll solve our water problems," says Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, a nonpartisan environmental think tank. "The trick is how much pain we can avoid on that path to where we want to be." As …
