Mumbai: Chief minister Ashok Chavan has asked the railways to look for other sources of water to meet their daily requirements.

The Central and Western Railway require about 38.52 lakh litres of water of which the former consumes nearly 23.40 lakh litres to wash local train coaches.

There have been bad seasons before but poor monsoon has left the city facing its worst water crisis. As tempers rise and protests grow, Mumbai has enough to last just another 200 days

RAWALPINDI: The city braces for acute water shortage as water level in Khanpur reservoir is dropping due to persistent dry spell, forcing Rawalpindi and Chaklala cantonment boards to start planning for water rationing.

Ahmedabad: The government in the state assembly on Friday announced that there was no water scarcity in any taluka of the state. The state government, however, did admit that the rainfall in the state was below average.

Dec. 6: The capital city and the state are facing acute shortage of clean potable fresh water and there are fears that the present resources will last only a few more years.
The groundwater level in the city has plummeted to 2.16 metres and this gives an idea of the severity of the problem.

Spurred on by clearance of a special package for Bundelkhand region, the National Research Centre for Agro-Forestry (NRCAF) will soon recommend its watershed experiment in the 13 drought-prone districts of the region to tackle water scarcity there.

Having shown dismal performance in the implementation of various projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, the state government has now asked the Central government to sanction a drinking water project for Amritsar.

In the next two decades, global water consumption will increase from the present 4,500 billion cubic metres (bcm) to 6,900 bcm. This will be 40% more than the estimated reliable and sustainable supply today, if no action is taken to conserve water and use it more efficiently.

Shillong: Deforestation, climate change besides other factors are responsible for water scarcity across the globe including Sohra-the wettest place on earth, but mismanagement is the main problem in causing water scarcity, the speakers pointed out at the three day international seminar on "Water Crisis in the Indian Sub-continent: Issues and Challenges" organised by Department of Geography, North

Sunil Kumar | Dehradun

With an aim of finding solutions to the prevailing water crisis in the State, Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan is in deliberation with Sky Water India Pvt Ltd and other companies to tap atmospheric water. The project would be known as sky water project.