The Centre for Integrated Urban Development (CIUD) has established a Rainwater Resource Centre on the premises of Nepal-Japan Children’s Library in Lainchaur.

With pipe bursts and leakage becoming a routine problem, water supply to the city has fallen drastically.

With massive residential and commercial complexes continuing to come up around Bangalore's lakes, demands are getting louder to regulate such construction to save the precious water bodies.

"Near water bodies we must not allow such complexes to come up," Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) vice president and former Infosys director T.V. Mohandas Pai told IANS.

Baijnath town and its adjoining dozen villages have been facing a drinking water crisis for the past four days.

Prevent Jolarpet Municipality officials from going ahead with the work

Ambalur villagers expressed their opposition to the move of the Jolarpet Municipality to dig five additional borewells in the Palar River in Ambalur panchayat near Vaniyambadi to tide over the drinking water scarcity of Jolarpet residents.

The Thanjavur Municipality is taking all possible steps to provide drinking water to people without any problem, said Savithiri Gopal, Chairperson, Thanjavur Municipality, here on Wednesday.

Liabilities of tank drivers piling up for 4 years

KATHUA: The PHE Department’s failure to release the payment of private water tankers amounting to Rs 1 crore in Kathua district who in turn have stopped the supply of pottable water on credit basis coupled with breaking down of over 25 pumping stations, the Kandi belt of the district is facing acute scarcity of water at present.

PUNE: Some parts of Satara district are still reeling under acute shortage of drinking water.

Heavy rains that lashed the State’s coastal districts claimed five lives in Dakshina Kannada and two in Kasargod district on Tuesday.

Four persons of a family were killed when a compound wall at a higher reach collapsed on their tiled roof houses below, in the wee hours of Tuesday, at Dalit Colony, Thottilaguri near Bajpe, in Mangalore taluk.

For residents of Iblur (near Sarjapur outer ring road), water crisis has become a way of life. They are heavily dependent on water tankers to meet their daily needs. The onset of monsoon has brought no respite to them.

Mallikarjun, a resident, said: “For the past 30 years, the water issue has been persisting. We neither get CMC (City Municipal Corporation) water nor Cauvery water regularly.“