In view of the unprecedented dry spell coupled with depleting ground water level in Guwahati owing to shortage of rainfall, the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) has pressed into service two of its water tankers to supply water, more particularly in areas that are not covered by its water piped network.

P. Sudhakar

TIRUNELVELI: Residents living under Melapalayam and Tirunelveli zones of the Corporation may face acute drinking water crisis in the next few days as a portion of the sandbags that diverted water from the Tamirabharani towards the infiltration wells sunk in the perennial river has been removed by the Public Works Department.

NAGAPATTINAM: A large number of men and women from several villages blocked road on Thulajapuram road near Vedaranyam on Wednesday demanding the district administration to take immediate steps to provide protected drinking water supply.

The protestors complained that many villages were not getting water for several months through the Anaikarai comprehensive water supply scheme.

KENDRAPARA: Scarcity of water with the onset of summer is an election issue in most of the seaside villages under Mahakalapada and Rajnagar blocks in the district as several political leaders have failed to keep their promises to provide potable water to them.

The all-important subject of water needs holistic treatment instead of fragmented attention from mostly diffused and unaccountable multiple governmental/civic agencies -Proloy Bagchi

Madhya Pradesh is facing its worst-ever water crisis, which has hit water-based industries, particularly poha (rice-flakes) and rice de-husking millers of Ujjain town.

Made from flattened rice, poha is easy to cook, nutritious, and is consumed all over India, for breakfast or brunch, or as a snack.

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Some two and a half lakh residents at Sirajdikhan upazila in Munshiganj district have been facing acute shortage of drinking water because of salinity and arsenic contamination in the ground water.
The villagers at remote places are now facing acute drinking water crisis during the summer because of fall in the ground water level, high salinity and arsenic contamination in the area.

People of several suburban areas of Karachi are dependent for their water needs on rainwater which refills their wells and ponds, but the areas have received no rain over the past some years.

The drought has left 20 per cent of the wells at their lowest level, while water of 80 per cent wells has turned brackish, according to a recent survey of the affected areas.