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 …
AHMEDABAD: Sensing the vagaries of nature with rains getting scanty this year in Ahmedabad, officials of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) are chalking out a contingency plan to keep potable water woes away from the city. In the past, Ahmedabad had witnessed water riots over the scarcity of drinking water. To …
BHUBANESWAR: An Assembly Standing Committee has pulled up the Rural Development Department for delay in the implementation of drinking water project in Sakhigopal and Kanas region of Puri district as a result of which people of the area are living without potable water for years. The panel members headed by …
Power shortage in Andhra Pradesh has started affecting water supply in several cities and towns, including Hyderabad. The crisis has also led to an acute shortage of diesel as the demand has gone up due to increased use of generators. Hyderabad is reeling under drinking water shortage with residential areas …
Around 32,000 have been settled within a land area of 80,000 acres, expending of Rs. 32,000 million by the government, to enhance rice production in the country under the Mahaweli development programme. The main water supply to the H zone is from Kalawewa reservoir which has a capacity to irrigate …
Towards purchase of land for the project by Himachal Govt. Work on the project had been hanging fire Project promises to alleviate Delhi water scarcity problems -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW DELHI: Giving much needed impetus to the long-pending Renuka Dam project, the Delhi Jal Board has decided to release Rs.300 crore to …
Cloud-seeding operations to commence within 10 days Water to be released this week from projects to an ayacut of 4 lakh acres 7-hour power supply to be ensured to agriculture HYDERABAD: Appealing to the people not to panic over the dry spell prevailing in Andhra Pradesh, the government has announced …
Meena Menon MUMBAI: Very poor rainfall in Maharashtra has led to the State announcing that it is experiencing conditions akin to scarcity, according to a review by the Cabinet on Wednesday. Sixteen districts in the State have received rainfall below 50 per cent till July 8. The water storage in …
Kolar: The district is facing acute water shortage with 281 villages lacking drinking water facilities and their number is increasing day by day. The drought relief works requires a fund of Rs 18 crores and soon a proposal will be submitted to the government soon said deputy commissioner B Shivappa. …
Dhiraj Nayyar The attack in Kabul must not be allowed to undercut vital economic ties between India and Afghanistan Nowhere, perhaps, are the frailty of life and the mortality of human beings more evident than in Afghanistan. The suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy may have been a first …
The water shortage in Guwahati can no longer be overlooked. The reason for this, according to AK Das, Junior Engineer, PHE, is the old pipelines and the scheme itself. The distribution lines are almost 30 years old. "The amount of water supplied is same but the population has increased manifold …
The long and intense heat spells attributed to climate change, has of late posed discomfort to animals in the State Zoo. Though most of the animals out of the 750 at the zoo are indigenous, still the climate change that has been triggering erratic monsoons and water scarcity has prompted …
It is not just the temperature that is rising in Madhya Pradesh but also the anxiety over water supply. Water has become so scarce that while people at some places are hiring armed guards to prevent its theft, at others they have been found using a lottery system to fill …
As many as 91 projects in water sector were being implemented while 16 electricity supply schemes were underway in various parts of Balochistan, official sources told APP here on Sunday. These projects aimed at providing clean drinking water and electricity supply facilities to the people in the province, the sources …
Darjeeling : The Bengal government has formed a high-level advisory committee to oversee the implementation of the Rs 55-crore Balasun supply scheme that is expected to solve the water shortage problem in Darjeeling town. "The committee has been entrusted with the job of reviewing the progress of work, suggesting measures …
Completion of three Yamuna basin schemes only will solve Delhi's water problems- Arabinda Ghose It sounds cruel to say this, but the stark reality is that only when three projects in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarkhand, hanging fire for more than two decades, are completed, water woes of Delhites can be …
Looks like the State Government needs High Court to remind it that one of its duties is to ensure that the people in Goa get adequate unpolluted drinking water. And, the right to get unpolluted drinking water falls within the ambit of right to life. Taking notice of the news …
JOYNAGAR (South 24-Parganas): Drinking water scarcity is still a major problem for the residents of 100-year-old Joynagar Mazilpur Municipality. Two reservoirs had been inaugurated in the municipality (consisting of 14 wards) from 1978-1980 but 10 years later, drinking water scarcity became an issue again. The lack of maintenance rendered the …
