Legal Correspondent

PALAKKAD: As the Bharathapuzha and its tributaries go dry with each passing day, the problem of drinking water
turns from bad to worse.

Voters of a village near Sonarpur have decided to boycott the elections this year.

BHUBANESWAR: While the soaring mercury has made people

IMPHAL

Water woes
This April is proving to be too cruel for Giridih.

First, the unbearable heat and now, an acute drinking water crisis looms large on the district with two of its water supply centres drying up, thanks to the sharp rise in temperature and the absence of rainfall.

Normal life was affected by soaring heat coupled with prolonged dry spell in Tripura as mercury touched 38.6 degree Celsius today, Met officials said today.

Weathermen said Tripura recorded the maximum temperature of 39.9 degree Celsius yesterday, a record over the last 15 years.

Member of Provincial Assembly (NWFP) Gulistan Bhittani has asked the Tank District Administration to take special measures for resolving drinking water problem in the city. Talking to APP here on Sunday, he said that the residents of Tank city have been facing acute shortage of potable water due to lack of the tube-wells in the city.

Wasa water has become a source of quick bucks for some dishonest government employees in the wake of unbearable water crisis in the capital, allege a number of city dwellers.

They allege a clique of Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) officials are exacting more money than the official rates for water supply in lorries without money receipts.

Boys digging the Ang river bed in search of water.

PADAMPUR: In the elections that have gone by none of the leaders in their campaigns dared to raise the issue of water scarcity apprehending public wrath. Water scarcity has been a major problem the residents of Padampur NAC have been grappling with for the last few decades.