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 …
Shagufta Kalim Through its many initiatives, Water for People is making clean water an accessible reality in West Bengal's rural areas. The project started in 2005 and it has been showing the required results when and where it matters the most. Around the world, 884 million people do not have …
KARACHI, Nov 4: The entire city faced an overall water shortage of 48.5 million gallon per day (mgd) owing to an over 13-hour suspension of power supply to the Dhabeji pumping station, it was stated on Wednesday. According to the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, the electricity supply to the …
SALEM: Traffic on the Salem-Bangalore National Highways was disrupted for nearly an hour on Monday when a group of residents from Narasothipatti and Kamarajar Colony blocked the road in protest against inadequate drinking water supply to their localities. The residents, mostly women carrying empty pots, gathered near Sankar theatre bus …
District administration has called a meeting of officers and legislators to chalk out an action plan on redressing drinking water scarcity in the City, on Oct 27. The officers have been asked to attend the meeting with suggestions on clearing the encroachment of raja kaluve, desilting of water bodies and …
Ahmedabad: The state may have received nearly 74 per cent of its annual rainfall, but it will have to depend heavily on Narmada and bore water to meet the drinking water needs of north Gujarat which has received less rainfall. Dams in north Gujarat have just 30 per cent of …
Bhakti V Hegde, Mangalore, Sep 24, DH News Service: Kolnadu and Munnur Gram Panchayats rule the roost when it comes to scarcity of water in Ullal area. Realising the fact that a permanent solution is better than superficial treatment for the problems, Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat has taken up borewell …
Perennial water scarcity has been one of the worst kept secrets of many of Mumbai's toniest areas. Parts of South Mumbai, including Cuffe Parade and Nariman Point, depend on tankers for their daily quota. Likewise, several of the city's expensive localities in the western suburbs make do with just a …
This paper reviews 41 National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) submitted by Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and identifies the range of interventions included in countries
The Wild Life Department has come to the rescue of drought stricken wild animals in the Sanctuaries, especially Yala and Kumana by pumping water from the Menik Ganga and using bowsers to fill man made water ponds in the Park, Director of Wild Life H. D. Ratnayake said yesterday. He …
At the sleepy office of the Bundelkhand Vikas Nigam in Jhansi, senior assistant O P Gupta, lone member of the staff apart from a chaprasi and the newly appointed chairman, is clearly unaccustomed to visitors. He recalls the time when the Nigam
The women of Ramgarh village in Chhattarpur district in Madhya Pradesh's drought-affected Bundelkhand region have battled administrative apathy and non-cooperation by elected representatives to find a solution to the severe water problem they are facing. The women of Ramgarh village in Chhattarpur district in Madhya Pradesh's drought-affected Bundelkhand region have …
With a reverse osmosis treatment plant, an Andhra Pradesh village will now need to pay for what is their right. It is water capitalism through state policy, Uma Maheshwari argues in a two-part article With all its limitations and loopholes, the community water tap in a village existed because people …
A parliamentary standing committee yesterday asked Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to take measures to bring and treat water of Dhaleswari and Padma rivers for distribution among the city dwellers who have been suffering from acute shortage of drinking water. The committee on public undertakings also asked the state-run utility …
Melting Himalayan glaciers and other climate change impacts pose a direct threat to the water and food security of more than 1.6 billion people in South Asia, according to preliminary findings of a new study financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute, …
Climate change threatens to bring food and water shortages to 1.6 billion people in South Asia, with the region's poorest likely to be worst hit, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said here Wednesday. New research commissioned by the ADB shows that if current climate trends persist until 2050, maize yields …
With several parts of the country already reeling under drought, scientists in the United States have found that groundwater levels in North Indian cities, including Delhi, are declining by as much as a foot per year over the past decade. Scientists, with the help of NASA satellite data, have found …
Poor crop yields, water shortages and more extreme temperatures are pushing rural villagers in Nepal closer to the brink as a result of climate change, a new report launched Oxfam, an international aid agency, aid, describing the situation "deeply worrying". In the report, "Even the Himalayas Have Stopped Smiling: Climate …
The water supply project in Walapane which comes under the main water supply scheme in the Nuwara Eliya district is nearing completion and ready to serve more than 12,800 people in the area who suffered hardships due to the scarcity of drinking water during past few years. The main water …
