K. Raju

Supply not made even once in 8 days in Kodaikanal

In high ridge areas, situation is so grim

Plan to draw water from Gundar falls

Nearly 200 people have been killed by a cyclone that ripped through Bangladesh and eastern India, while millions remained marooned by floodwater or forced to live in shelters.

SAMBALPUR: Unbridled growth and unchecked encroachments have posed a serious threat to natural resources, particularly water bodies. And this assumes significance at a time when climate change, manifested in growing heat in the cities like Sambalpur, is taking a heavy toll.

Sambalpur is hardly left with any forest cover and the water bodies are dying a slow death.

Lasting solutions to water challenges require a broad range of expert knowledge about climate, ecology, farming, population, engineering, economics, community politics and local cultures, says Jeffrey D Sachs

KOHIMA, May 24: The scourge of water scarcity has hit most in many parts of Nagaland, if not all the districts of the state. The scarcity of water has been a matter of worry for the denizens of Nagaland for years now. Had it not been for the timely monsoon rains in all these years, the people of the state would have faced untold hardships due to scarcity of water with the exception of Dimapur.

Turkey has boosted the flow of the Euphrates river passing through its dams upstream of Iraq to help farmers cope with a drought after Iraqi complaints, but it is still not enough, a top Iraqi lawmaker said on Saturday.

Although District Guardian Minister Ajit Pawar had called on a meeting on Thursday to address the water woes in different areas, many feel that it was too late a step, as the monsoon is just a week away.

A member from Velhe taluka said that the administration took up the issue very late.

No one could say they hadn't seen it coming.

The sand dunes had been advancing for decades before, two years ago, they finally swallowed the houses of Raimundo do Nascimento and 12 other families in Ilha Grande, an island in the Parnaiba river delta in northeastern Brazil.

According to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Narmada water will be provided in Malwa region too to solve the drinking water problem permanently. The state government's efforts are on in this direction, he said. Chouhan visited Village Hirani in Sehore district on Wednesday where intake well is being constructed under Narmada Water Scheme for the purpose of bringing Narmada water to Bhopal.

The biggest seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere, north of San Diego, can begin construction by year's end after a six-year effort to win regulators' approval, the developer said on Thursday.