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 …
Hazaribagh, Nov. 23: Deputy commissioner Ravindra Kumar Agarwal today admitted that the water scarcity in the district was worsening each day, and that he had discussed the problem with the urban development department secretary in Ranchi yesterday. Agarwal, who had forwarded a Rs.2.91 crore proposal to install hand pumps in …
Dust storms scour Iraq. Freak floods wreak havoc in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Rising sea levels erode Egypt's coast. Hotter, drier weather worsens water scarcity in the Middle East, already the world's most water-short region. The Arab world is already suffering impacts consistent with climate change predictions. Although scientists are …
JAMMU, Nov 11: To deal with water scarcity in various localities of Gandhi Nagar constituency, Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla on Thursday convened a meeting of Public Health Engineering (PHE), Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) and Planning Department officers to review the progress of various under construction tube …
Bokaro, Nov. 8: The delay in completing the drinking water supply project in Chas, Bokaro, which was to be over by June 30, 2010, has drawn the attention of deputy chief minister Hemant Soren. Hemant, who holds the drinking water and sanitation portfolio, today served an ultimatum to the engineers …
Guntur district is aiming at all-round, inclusive growth with a slew of projects and programmes. GUNTUR district, spread over an area of nearly 11,390 square kilometres, is bounded by Prakasam district in the south, Mahabubnagar in the west and Krishna and Nalgonda districts in the north. The district has a …
RESIDENTS of Kelwan in Gujarat’s Dang district do not allow outsiders to enter their village, especially people who seem city dwellers. They take them to be government officials who would conduct surveys for a project that will submerge their land and take away the area’s water to benefit industry. Their …
It can sound like a dream but the local Municipal Corporation (MC) plans to provide round-the-clock water supply in four wards of the city on an experiment basis. If it succeeds, it will be implemented in all 25 wards. The
The Arab world will be one of the regions worst hit by climate change but still lacks any coordinated response to its potentially devastating effects, experts said at a conference this week. With hotter, drier and less predictable climates, the amount of water running into the region's streams and rivers …
Asansol, Sept. 17: Asansol is groaning under an acute drinking water shortage because the truant rain has almost dried up the Damodar, which flows by the town. The submersible pumps are drawing much less water from the river, the town
Chamarajanagar, Sept 14, DH News Service: Increasing population and rapid urbanisation are witnessed at Kaggala, a village in Chamarajanagar district. But at the sametime, the depleting underground water table is causing lot of problems for villagers. Residents of Kaggala village of Chamarajanagar district collecting drinking water from mini water supply …
A BILL to facilitate and ensure sustainable and adequate supply of groundwater of prescribed quality, for various category of users, through supply and demand management measures, protecting public drinking water sources and to establish the State Groundwater Authority and District Level Authorities to manage and to regulate, with community participation, …
CHINSURAH, 29 AUG: As rainfall is far below the required amount for better production of kharif crops, the district agriculture department has come up with a blueprint to ensure a better rabi season. The district agriculture department has decided to treat the rabi season as made of up three sub-seasons …
S Mahesh | ENS Nagercoil Residents and councillors allege that the plant is being run without permission since 2008 URGING the authorities to immediately close down the private mineral water plant functioning at Aralvoimozhy, the residents along with the councillors and president of Aralvoimozhy selection grade town panchayat staged a …
Bhubaneswar: Sending a note of assurance, the Centre on Thursday assured the Odisha government that no area of the state would be submerged due to coming up of the Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh. In a letter to chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday, Union forest and environment minister Jairam …
Zhouqu: The death toll from mudslides in northwest China surged to 337 on Monday, as rescuers used diggers and their bare hands in a desperate search for more than 1,000 others still missing. At least three villages were flattened by an avalanche of mud and rocks triggered by heavy rains …
To tackle the water supply crisis in the city, the civic administration has been flirting dangerously with groundwater reserves by digging borewells in areas where the water table is below normal, or where the water is polluted and saline, in violation of state norms.A report of new borewells dug between …
Delhi is perpetually in the grip of a water crisis with the shortage plummeting to 150 million litres a day. In Mumbai water scarcity is reported to be a cause of social discord and stress. A drinking water crisis is lurking in Godawari district of Karnataka as also in Bundelkhand. …
Jaipur is on the verge of a severe drinking water crisis, with officials saying the international tourist destination may get potable water supply only once in 48 hours, given the poor monsoon so far. With the level receding at the Bisalpur dam that provides water to the city, supply is …
