DURGAPUR/KOLKATA, 7 APRIL: Police fired in the air and lobbed teargas shells to disperse a group of protesters today in front of the Khandra panchayat office in Andal PS area, about 12 km from Durgapur. The villagers protested against alleged corrupt practices of the panchayat and shortage of drinking water in the area.

Residents of Chamundi Hills, one of the tourist hospots in Mysore, rarely get drinking water. When they get it, they get worms free with the water.

Nearly 2,000 people live in villages atop Chamundi Hills. Though the water tank here has a storage capacity of 2.7 lakh litres of water, nearly 70,000 litres of water is supplied to the temple from the tank.

Hyderabad, April 4: Drinking water supply to the twin cities will be cut by about 10 million gallons per day (MGD) following the state government

Hyderabad, April 4: Drinking water crisis looms large in 17 districts as summer is fast approaching.

Out of the 23 districts in the state, these 17 districts are facing drinking water shortage as several tanks and canals have dried up.

More than 60 towns in the state depend on small tanks nearby for their drinking water requirements.

Water scarce villages of Hamirpur district have set an example by reviving the traditional water sources to meet their requirements this summer. This initiative of self-dependence by 229 gram panchayats has been turned into a success story under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Scheme (MGNREGA), that too in a record time of six months.

The Madhya Pradesh government today declared Guna district as 'water scarcity area'.

''In view of below average rainfall received in the district coupled with problem of drinking water, the Guna district has been declared as a scarcity area,'' District Collector Mukeshchand Gupta said.

To Madhuraj, the camera is a third eye. His Water Plunder exposes the large-scale exploitation of drinking water by MNCs and the resistance put up by the village communities against this, notes K A Antony

S Sampath, Bangalore, April 2, DH News Service:

The unusually hot summer has dealt a double whammy for Bangaloreans as acute shortage of power is now being accompanied by severe water crisis.

A view of the Thippagondanahalli reservoir on Friday. dh Photo

The Thippagondanahalli reservoir (TG Halli) responsible for providing water to the western part of the City is now drying up.

ROURKELA: The cry for drinking water in the Steel City is getting shriller with the rise in mercury levels. Dry pockets of the city have been feeling the pinch with the temperature hovering above 41 degree Celsius in the past few days.

With no additional canal water, 15 new tubewells approved

Mohali is short of 7 million gallons daily (MGD) water for drinking purposes and this figure shoots up to 10 MGD in peak summer (May to July).