BALANGIR: A big pond in the peak summer has been given to a person on contract for fishing at a time when locals are facing acute water shortage for bathing.

Nearly 5,000 people depend on the pond, situated in the heart of Kantabanji, the commercial town of Balangir district.

In spite of crores of rupees being spent on the construction of the Parsari Joshimath Potable Water Project, the residents of Joshimath continued to face shortage of water.

Pune Even as the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has appealed the citizens to save water, the civic body is perhaps oblivious to the wastage of water in its own headquarters.

State has sanctioned fund to drill new bore wells

NIZAMABAD, April 19: Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) leaders tried to obstruct the Praja Patham, a mass contact programme in the district on Monday in protest against the delay in carving out a separate state for Telangana.
The agitators created hurdles in the meetings of minister for medical education P. Sudarshan Reddy in Pegadapally and Langdapur villages in Bodhan mandal.

LUCKNOW: Next time you are driving through Bundelkhand or its Mahoba district in particular and luckily manage to spot a pond which also has water in it, think twice before you fill up your water containers for the rest of the journey. For, it may land you in lock-up as it happened with 18 local farmers on Saturday.

Gokul Chandrasekar

CHENNAI: Live Earth run for water, one of the largest global initiatives on the water crisis, scheduled to be held in over 100 cities across the world on April 18 has come to a halt in most major cities, including in Chennai, after local organisers realised that Dow Chemicals was the key sponsor of the event.

Radhakrishnan Kuttoor

Monsoon or summer, villagers in the Upper Kuttanad region are left to bear with the bane of drinking water scarcity, despite being surrounded by water round the year. Thanks to lack of Governmental initiatives coupled with the unscientific infra-structure development initiatives in the region the past several years.

KRISHNAGIRI: The State Government has allocated Rs. 2 crore to tackle drinking water scarcity during summer in Krishnagiri district, said K.S. Sripathy, Chief Secretary, on Thursday.

Mr. Sripathy held discussion with all the District Collectors through video conferencing from Chennai.

Virudhunagar worst hit; funds for other districts after getting report

CHENNAI: The government on Thursday sanctioned Rs. 18 crore from the Calamity Relief Fund to overcome the drinking water shortage in 10 districts. Virudhunagar, Tiruvallur, Dharmapuri, Salem, Villupuram, Krishnagiri, Vellore, Tiruvannamalai, Dindigul and Namakkal districts will be benefited.