Mohali: In a bid to augment the water supply position in the town in view of the coming summers, the Water Supply and Sanitation Wing has requested the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) to sink 10 tubewells in various parts of the town and also release funds for the provision of a hotline power connection to an underground storage reservoir (UGSR).

NAGPUR: The district administration has geared up to tackle the drinking water crisis ahead of summer and will be spending Rs8.18 crores on it, official sources said today.

A meeting chaired by district collector Praveen Darade today reviewed the situation in 916 villages falling in the district.

New Delhi: Politically charged Bundelkhand

In a first of its kind effort to encourage technology-driven development at the grassroots, the science-related departments of the government got together to inform the states about indigenous technologies currently available in the country and how they can be utilised to solve everyday problems.

2.5 TMC-ft of water from Singur dam for irrigation purposes in Medak and Ranga Reddy

Hyderabad, Jan. 26: The government

PALAKKAD: The State Government should initiate urgent measures to solve the drinking water problem in Plachimada, said Gandhian and Kerala Sarvodaya Mandalam president M P Mathai.

Sangeetha Samuel

Like many wards in the City, now preparing for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) elections, the erstwhile Frazer Town, now renamed as Pulakeshinagar, is also plagued by acute water crisis.

G Manjusainath

River Cauvery is close yet too far to quench the thirst of the residents of Vasanthapura ward.

The ward is among the seven in Bangalore South constituency, which is struggling for basic civic amenities.

SHILLONG, Jan 10: About five villages under the Mawthadraishan Block in West Khasi Hills district have been struggling for a drop of drinking water for over 13 years.

Kanas: Before the onset of the New Year, 22 panchayats of the Kanas block have been facing acute shortage of drinking water. No measures are being taken up by the Rural Development department or by the panchayats. Scarcity of drinking water is a regular phenomenon in the block, claiming human lives every year, afflicting people with gastro-intestinal diseases due to lack of safe drinking water.