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 …
As many as 20 water filling stations to supply water through 100 private tankers will be deployed. Hyderabad: Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board managing director M. Dana Kishore on Tuesday said that the water board would compensate 50 million gallons a day (MGD) from Singur/ Manjeera with water …
CHARMINAR: Irked by the apathy of authorities towards the water crisis plaguing their localities, residents living in areas under Jalpally municipality limits (Maheswaram constituency) took to the streets over the weekend to raise their voice against the issue. Local leaders too had to face the wrath of the people who …
Nakasongola — The fishing communities at Lwampanga Landing Site in Nakasongola District have accused government officials of failing a project that had been planned to extend safe and clean water to them. Residents claim they are forced to share the only available water source on the banks of Lake Kyoga …
Jaimala, Minister for Women and Child Development, said on Wednesday that drinking water works would be given priority in the district as peak summer was approaching. Addressing presspersons after the tri-monthly Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) meeting, Ms. Jaimala said the District-level Task Force and Taluk-level Task Forces on drinking water …
Bengaluru: Six dying lakes in the city are all set to witness a revival with five corporates and private companies officially adopting them for rejuvenation, said government officials. The government on Wednesday inked memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with the firms on the sidelines of an event held in the city. …
The City of Cape Town – and southwest Africa more generally – experienced its worst drought on record between 2015 and 2018. With fresh rains as well as careful water management, the city has now emerged from this environmental and economic emergency. The final consequences of the drought might never …
And they are exacerbated by bad management, says Simon Long AS IT SCOURS the universe for signs of extraterrestrial life, NASA has a motto-cum-mission-statement: “Follow the water”. About 70% of the human body is made up of water, it says, and 70% of Earth’s surface is covered in the stuff. …
Jalyukt Shivar is contractor-driven, says State drought mitigation board . The failure of State public policy on water leading to mismanagement of existing water resources, and not a deficient monsoon, was the real cause of the acute drought in the State, the Maharashtra State Drought Mitigation and Famine Eradication Board …
Residents of Saptari district have been hit by a shortage of water lately. Groundwater level has dropped after pumping increased in the district over the past few years. The majority of families in Saptari rely on groundwater for both drinking and irrigation purposes. Experts said the haphazard destruction in Chure …
Settlements in various hill districts in Province 1 have been reeling under water shortage in the recent years as natural springs and groundwater are drying up rapidly. People say natural water sources in the region are drying up due to haphazard construction of roads, aggregate mining and deforestation. Moreover, they …
The year 2018 will end in a few days, and people have already started to make their New Year resolutions for 2019. The current year saw many natural calamities around the globe like California fire, Kerala floods, earthquakes and many more. Due to this, many lives were lost and properties …
THE Arusha Urban Water Supply Authority has inked four contracts valued at 271.2 billion/-, all aimed at improving water services in the city by churning out 200 million cubic meters of the precious liquid per day. "The water production will be able to sufficiently cater for 827,000 residents of Arusha," …
Some residents of Olievenhoutbosch in Centurion, are experiencing water outages due to restrictions that are underway, the City of Tshwane has said. The city received a formal notification from water utility, Rand Water, that water consumption had increased in the area due to high temperatures. City of Tshwane spokesperson Lindela …
The City of Cape Town has made the move to relax current water restrictions from Level 6B to Level 5 from October 1, Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson announced. After suffering from the worst drought in recent history, Cape Town's dams are nearing 70% of storage capacity – a significant improvement …
This emerged from a seminar on the iceberg project convened by the Water Research Commission in Cape Town on Monday, as part of its dialogue series on alternative water supplies. Dr Shafick Adams, an executive manager at the Water Research Commission, said SA had to diversify its water supply mix …
BASRA, IRAQ - The brackish water pouring from the taps of homes in Basra has caused stomach ailments and skin rashes for thousands in the southern Iraqi city once famous for its network of freshwater canals that gave it the nickname the 'Venice of the East.' The contaminated water, along …
The Vaal River has been described as an open sewer, most frequently by people who live on its banks, despite protestations to the contrary by the department of water & sanitation. It smells of dead things and faeces. SA’s water crisis is not confined to the Vaal River, though it …
Water will be cut off in the towns of Hankey and Patensie in the Eastern Cape from Monday and only switched on again for short periods to stretch what little is left in the Kouga Dam, the municipality has announced. "We have been trying to delay the need for water …
For 75-year-old Tsering Angdo, today’s Ladakh is entirely different from the world of his childhood in the cold Himalayan desert. Back then, he and everyone he knew would take water supply for granted. Ladakh was never short of water, considering the limited needs of a small population. That is now …
Abeokuta — Minister of Water Resources, Mr. Suleiman Adamu has stated that access of Nigerians to pipe-borne water has dropped from 32 percent in 1990 to 7 percent in 2015, adding that about 71 percent of Nigerians have no access to quality water sanitation. He also said that only 69 …
