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 …
Over the last six months, Laxman Ritapure lost ten of his cattle. Four cows, four bullocks and two calves. As Marathwada's searing drought lengthened into a second year, he ran out of water and fodder to feed them. In this parched eight-district region where the drought has affected every single …
Belagavi: Sambra, Mutaga, Nilaji and Balekundri Gram Panchayats of Belagavi taluk, which had never felt shortage of water for decades, are also facing a water crisis due to drought and improper management of water this year. There are three lakes in Nilaji village, five in Mutaga, six in Sambra and …
BERHAMPUR: At Sorolo and Kaitha villages under Chikiti Assembly segment, no one offers a glass of water to an outsider. For women of both the villages trek at least 3 km everyday to fetch drinking water. Men, similarly, bring water from nearby villages in containers on their vehicles. At Govindpur …
Water scarcity is not restricted to the plains as is generally perceived, but is also seriously affecting many areas in the Himalayan heights that remain snow-bound for a large part of the year. The Central Water Commission (CWC) has identified eight villages in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir to …
Kolhapur: State revenue minister Eknath Khadse on Tuesday said the railways will transport water to the drought-affected Latur from Miraj in the next 8-10 days. He made the announcement after a meeting with rural development minister Pankaja Munde, railway officials, principal secretary of water supply and sanitation department Rajesh Kumar, …
Drought-stricken Palau could dry up completely this month, officials warned on Monday as the Pacific island appealed for urgent aid from Japan and Taiwan, including shipments of water. The tiny country of about 18,000 people declared a state of emergency last month, the latest Pacific island nation to do so …
SÁBANA DE GUACUCO, Venezuela—Desperate for water, construction worker Pedro Pirela and his neighbors recently laid a nighttime ambush. Alerted by the roar of a water truck that supplies nearby hotels, they blocked the street and forced the driver to stop, then siphoned off his precious cargo. Mr. Pirela and his …
Thailand’s agriculture ministry signaled that a water crisis may ease over the next few months because supply in the nation’s dams should be sufficient until seasonal rains begin in April or May. Dams that supply Thailand’s central plains hold about 2.4 billion cubic feet of water, less than half the …
It seems like the largest continent on Earth is running out of water as a new study has revealed that economic and population growth on top of climate change could put a big swath of Asia at a "high risk of severe water stress" by the year 2050. The study …
Countries in Asia will face severe water shortages by 2050 if current environmental, demographic and economic trends remain unchanged. This is the conclusion that MIT scientists have reached, after running different simulations of future climatic scenarios in the region. Published in the journal PLOS One, their study points out that …
Random drilling of bore wells in the state's water-scarce areas for both drinking and irrigation has led to a drop of up to 4 metres (13.12 ft) in 40% (13 out of 33 districts) in Gujarat, a study conducted by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has found. The CGWB …
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved a new financing of US$10 million International Development Association (IDA) credit to increase access to piped water supply services in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, and surrounding areas, and improve the operational efficiency of Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC). The Liberia Urban …
Maputo — Water shortages in the drought-stricken southern Mozambican province of Gaza have become critical, and the southern regional water board (ARA-Sul) has been forced to halt discharges from the Massingir dam. The dam, built in the early 1970s, is on the Elephants river, the largest tributary of the Limpopo. …
Opposition political parties on Monday came down heavily on the Naveen Patnaik government for acute shortage of drinking water in different parts of the State, especially in rural pockets. “Availability of drinking water in rural Odisha is going from bad to worse in the past one-decade-and-half. As per the 2001 …
The residents of Murma settlement in Rara VDC are facing water shortage after the water sources in the area dried up because of prolonged drought. “We have been facing problems managing drinking water. One family gets only one gagri (traditional water pot) water per day,” said Dhansingh Rokaya . There …
Coal power plants use enough water to supply the needs of 1 billion people and that will almost double if all the world’s planned power plants come online. Almost half the new power plants will be built in areas that are already in high water stress, a report commissioned by …
Almost half of the global population could suffer severe water stress by 2030 if current levels of water consumption and pollution are not immediately addressed. Options-for-Decoupling-Economic-Water2Report-CoverThis is the damning conclusion from a new report published by the International Resource Panel (IRP), entitled Policy Options for Decoupling Economic Growth from Water …
In Latur, drinking water crisis means the situation for cattle, animals is worse It is 11:30 am. The bright sun is blazing on a field in Bhatangli village in Latur district of Maharashtra, some 500 km from Mumbai. Asha Bhagotmale and her neighbours walked four km before they could find …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Monday it would lend $123.3 million to the Philippines to modernize water supply in the capital, Manila, to reduce the risk of shortages as demand for water rises in the megacity. The loan will allow the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System, a government-owned …
Daudi Nangole sits under a huge baobab tree, watching his herd of cattle drink from a dam in Ikolongo village - a place that until recently was a no-go area for pastoralists. The 56-year-old herder, his family and their 73 cattle, sheep and goats traveled several kilometers to reach the …
