Ahmedabad: With over 74 per cent of the canal networking yet to be completed, 27 towns and 3,962 villages still without water, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Siddharth Patel said that Chief Minister Narendra Modi has failed to give required attention to the Sardar Sarovar Narmada project.
Mumbai: At a time when the city is facing a scarcity of water, more than 400 wells with potable drinking water have been found to be filled with debris in the Andheri area alone.
CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday hit out at political parties which had been making the Dadupur-Nalvi canal project their poll plank and even included it in their election manifestos but on coming to power forgot all about it. This was the reason why the project was not initiated for more than 30 years, he said.
Himanshu Kaushik, TNN 20 July 2009, 03:35am IST
GANDHINAGAR: The wait for Narmada water has got longer for thousands of villages in Gujarat with the construction of branch, sub-branch and distribution canals further being delayed.
A decision support system for canal water releases (CWREDSS) was developed to provide demand-based optimal canal water releases for reducing the gap between canal supplies and demands for increasing the water-use efficiency in canal command areas. The
