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 …
Residents of Kharak Pandva village in Kalayat subdivision of this district are facing an acute shortage of drinking water as the canal-based water supply scheme has become almost defunct because the canal supplying water to the storage tanks remains dry most of the time . As a result, the Public …
Water scarcity in a remote village of Doti district has led many of his inhabitants to migrate over the last four decades. Only 35 families remain in Thali these days, but the water trouble of the villagers does not seem to end even though more than half of its population …
Thousands living in Canadian indigenous communities have had no access to potable water, some for decades, and Human Rights Watch on Tuesday pressed Ottawa to finally deal with this "water crisis." Chronic water woes linked to defective treatment plants or contamination from nearby farming or resource extraction affects dozens of …
Gujarat Government on Wednesday declared 81 more villages as 'scarcity-affected' owing to acute water shortage there, an official press release said. With this latest addition, the total number of scarcity-affected villages in Gujarat has reached 1,347. The decision to put these 81 villages of Porbandar district in 'affected' category was …
The Bombay high court on Wednesday issued notices to the Ulhasnagar civic body to explain as to why contempt proceeding should not be issued over its failure to provide water to residents of the township. The HC had last month directed the Ulhasnagar and Ambernath civic bodies to provide water …
Gurgaon: Midway through yet another excruciating summer, residents of Gurgaon's have come together to install a variety of rainwater harvesting systems in their respective standalone homes and private townships. In this arid region, depleting groundwater and lack of government effort towards harnessing monsoon rainwater has convinced many residents, their efforts …
Deputy-Chief of Staff, Johnny Osei Kofi, says if the illegal mining activities in the country’s forest reserves continue indiscriminately as is currently being witnessed, the country will be at risk of importing water from its neighbours. He said if the activities continue the country may have to desalinate sea water …
In a major relief to Karnataka, which is facing water shortage, the Centre on Monday signed a $100 million loan agreement with the World Bank for urban water supply modernisation project in the state. The drinking water problem has aggravated in the state in recent times due to drought as …
ISTANBUL (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tuvalu's prime minister on Tuesday called for a U.N. resolution to create legal protection for people displaced by the impacts of climate change, saying there was currently no international framework to protect their rights. Speaking at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, where he made …
Residents in Angola’s capital Luanda are experiencing water shortage. This has pushed them to depend on water vendors to overcome the city’s wide shortage. Angola has launched two major projects to double the capacity of water supply to achieve a million cubic metres of water in Luanda. “At the moment, …
In a sweeping synthesis of global data, the United Nations Environment Programme has intensively catalogued environmental assaults across the six different major regions of the globe. And it finds that, overall, damage to the planet is happening more rapidly than before, through slights ranging from air pollution, to the proliferation …
No water for drinking, agriculture activities in the district The severity of drought in the district can be explained best with the number of lakes that have gone dry this year. Out of 203 lakes in the district, 159 have completely dried up. All seven taluks of the district have …
DEHRADUN: A number of natural water bodies across Uttarakhand have dried up leading to a virtual crisis in villages especially in the summer. According to estimates, almost 60% of all water sources have dried up in the hills. Water scarcity in some districts like Rudraprayag has been so acute that …
PHAYA MENGRAI, Thailand—A severe drought caused by the El Niño weather system has inflamed water-linked problems across Southeast Asia in a region that hosts some of the world’s most fertile farmlands. The water crisis, the worst in 60 years, has pit industrial-scale plantations against smallholders in Thailand. It has led …
JAIPUR: Severe heat wave conditions prevailed at almost every part on Tuesday. Continued rise in the mercury has affected normal life and has troubled people with water crisis and power crisis at many parts in the state. Barmer remained hottest in the state where a maximum temperature of 47.5 degree …
Nagpur: Sudhir Raut, standing committee chairman of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), has decided to launch rainwater harvesting drive in the city. It will start from May 27 on the occasion of birthday of union transport minister Nitin Gadkari in Ramna Maroti ward. Other localities in central Nagpur will be covered …
Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court on Monday issued a notice to the state government on a PIL asking it to strictly adhere to the priorities enumerated in the State Water Policy 2010 and to clarify through an affidavit about the water crisis and measures adopted by it to tackle the …
Agra: Industrial units in the district are consuming excessive quantity of water. On a daily basis, they are taking 18 times more water than the total water requirement of the entire human population of the district. The maximum amount of water is consumed by leather processing and repairing and servicing …
Large number of people including women of Chabutra Bazaar here held strong demonstration against the PHE Department in protest against acute scarcity of drinking water supply in their area for the past over one month. The people said they have brought the matter to the concerned authorities of the PHE …
Proposals include total ban on release of untreated sewage water in rivers, dams The state government plans to bring in a comprehensive water management policy to tackle the severe water scarcity that has gripped 28,000 out of 40,000 villages in Maharashtra. The four core areas proposed include a complete ban …
