Ahmedabad: The state may have received nearly 74 per cent of its annual rainfall, but it will have to depend heavily on Narmada and bore water to meet the drinking water needs of north Gujarat which has received less rainfall.

Bhakti V Hegde, Mangalore, Sep 24, DH News Service:

Kolnadu and Munnur Gram Panchayats rule the roost when it comes to scarcity of water in Ullal area.

Perennial water scarcity has been one of the worst kept secrets of many of Mumbai's toniest areas. Parts of South Mumbai, including Cuffe Parade and Nariman Point, depend on tankers for their daily quota. Likewise, several of the city's expensive localities in the western suburbs make do with just a couple of hours of municipal water supply a day.

COIMBATORE: For the residents of Somayampalayam, a village panchayat on the city

The Wild Life Department has come to the rescue of drought stricken wild animals in the Sanctuaries, especially Yala and Kumana by pumping water from the Menik Ganga and using bowsers to fill man made water ponds in the Park, Director of Wild Life H. D. Ratnayake said yesterday.

At the sleepy office of the Bundelkhand Vikas Nigam in Jhansi, senior assistant O P Gupta, lone member of the staff apart from a chaprasi and the newly appointed chairman, is clearly unaccustomed to visitors. He recalls the time when the Nigam

The women of Ramgarh village in Chhattarpur district in Madhya Pradesh's drought-affected Bundelkhand region have battled administrative apathy and non-cooperation by elected representatives to find a solution to the severe water problem they are facing.

With a reverse osmosis treatment plant, an Andhra Pradesh village will now need to pay for what is their right. It is water capitalism through state policy, Uma Maheshwari argues in a two-part article With all its limitations and loopholes, the community water tap in a village existed because people had a right to safe drinking water. And the government was duty-bound to provide it.

A parliamentary standing committee yesterday asked Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to take measures to bring and treat water of Dhaleswari and Padma rivers for distribution among the city dwellers who have been suffering from acute shortage of drinking water.