Dust storms scour Iraq. Freak floods wreak havoc in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Rising sea levels erode Egypt's coast. Hotter, drier weather worsens water scarcity in the Middle East, already the world's most water-short region.

The Arab world is already suffering impacts consistent with climate change predictions.

JAMMU, Nov 11: To deal with water scarcity in various localities of Gandhi Nagar constituency, Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla on Thursday convened a meeting of Public Health Engineering (PHE), Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) and Planning Department officers to review the progress of various under construction tube wells and over head tanks under NRDWP.

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Bokaro, Nov.

Guntur district is aiming at all-round, inclusive growth with a slew of projects and programmes.
GUNTUR district, spread over an area of nearly 11,390 square kilometres, is bounded by Prakasam district in the south, Mahabubnagar in the west and Krishna and Nalgonda districts in the north. The district has a population of nearly 50 lakh. Under the guidance of Chief Minister K.

It can sound like a dream but the local Municipal Corporation (MC) plans to provide round-the-clock water supply in four wards of the city on an experiment basis. If it succeeds, it will be implemented in all 25 wards.

The

The Arab world will be one of the regions worst hit by climate change but still lacks any coordinated response to its potentially devastating effects, experts said at a conference this week.

With hotter, drier and less predictable climates, the amount of water running into the region's streams and rivers is set to fall 20 to 30 percent by 2050, worsening desertification and food insecurity, the

The Punjab government

Asansol, Sept.

Chamarajanagar, Sept 14, DH News Service:

Increasing population and rapid urbanisation are witnessed at Kaggala, a village in Chamarajanagar district. But at the sametime, the depleting underground water table is causing lot of problems for villagers.

Residents of Kaggala village of Chamarajanagar district collecting drinking water from mini water supply tank.