BHAWANIPATNA: It is a double whammy for farmers of Indravati irrigated pockets of Kalahandi. If delay in release of water into the canals was not enough, the administration is yet to arrange for proper marketing facilities for procurement of Dalua (summer) paddy.

Bhavani scheme provides the much needed relief

Plans are on for a phase two scheme for Thondamuthur, Vedapatti, Veerakeralam, Perur and Dhaliyur

Begumganj: The drinking water crisis in this town of district Raisen has intensified to such an extent that there regular confrontation of people being witnessed here over the drinking water. The situation has been made worse because of drying up some of the drinking water sources.

With the indefinite general strike entering the fifth day on Sunday, normal life in the taluk continued to be disrupted.

NAGPUR: An unusually high incidence of monkey deaths over the last three days near a dried up reservoir in the Sindewahi forests, 150km from here in Chandrapur, has driven wildlife officials to panic.

Village Water and Sanitation Committees increase user fee

BHUBANESWAR: Even as rural Orissa is struggling to cope with scorching heat and acute drinking water crisis, rising power cost has made life miserable for those, who had even drinking water sources available at their doorstep.

Rajahmundry, June 6: Governor of Pondicherry, Dr Iqbal Singh, called for preserving drinking water resources for future needs.

Participating in the bhoomi puja programme for the supply of drinking water to Yanam under Pondy state from the Godavari river on Sunday, Mr Singh said that unless these measures were initiated properly, there would be shortage of drinking water by 2020.

New Delhi: The groundwater levels in the city are plunging to such an extent that many parts of Delhi have already gone dry. Largescale exploitation of groundwater has led to a colossal problem of water availability in the city. The only viable way to preserve it, or at least replenish it, is rainwater harvesting.

RASHME SEHGAL

Entire villages across Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh have villagers queuing up for hours to get a single pot of water. Ganga Bai of Navsari village in Gujarat points out:`We work during the day and then stand in water queues through the night.'

Water from the Cauvery is not enough for the city

Dedicated water supply scheme already sanctioned

It has been delayed by administrative issues

For more water: Work on sinking borewells in progress at Maruthi Nagar in Salem on Thursday.