WB report states how climate change to hit Bangladesh; warns poorest countries to be worst sufferers

The city is looking at a shortage of at least 40 million gallons of drinking water supply during the coming summer.

The Water Board will be forced to reduce the duration of supply even in the core city during the summer as the reservoirs have not received sufficient inflows due to a poor monsoon. This was revealed by Water Board managing director J. Syamala Rao at a media conference on Thursday.

LUCKNOW: Agriculture production commissioner Alok Ranjan has directed the groundwater department to prepare groundwater management and conservation schemes in 108 development blocks of 36 districts

Islamabad—Capital Development Authority (CDA) has chalked out a comprehensive plan to get over 215 mgd water from different sources to overcome water scarcity in the capital, said a document placed

BHUBANESWAR: An independent study on nutrition status in Odisha’s Rayagada district has revealed that a whopping 75 per cent children face stunting, thanks to acute malnutrition.

Aims to solve drinking water problems of Patiala city

Locality receives just 4 million litres per day against requirement of 28 million

There is some good news for Pallavaram residents reeling under a shortage of drinking water. The State government has given its nod for a Rs. 99.95-crore water supply improvement scheme in the municipality. It will be implemented by Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board with the aid of World Bank under the Tamil Nadu Urban Development Project-III (TNUDP).

Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan, is a major tourist attraction not only for foreign tourists “doing” the Golden Triangle circuit of Agra, Delhi and Jaipur but also domestic tourists who visit

Shettar would hold another round of floor leaders' meeting on Sept 15 before attending the CRA meeting

An all-party meeting convened by Karnataka government on Tuesday resolved to urge the Cauvery River Authority headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to evolve a distress formula based on ground realities on sharing of the river waters with Tamil Nadu and other riparian states. A consensus to this effect was reached at a meeting of floor leaders of political parties in the state legislature, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who convened the meeting ahead of the CRA meeting to be held on September 19 in Delhi, told reporters here.

PANJIM: At a time when every single drop of water has been termed as precious by the state government, which aims to provide 24x7 supply, up to 12,000 cubic meters (or 12 MLD) of water treated at the sewerage plant at Tonca is flushed out into River Mandovi every single day.

The water is so clean that just one tertiary unit more of treatment at the plant would make it fit to drink by even Singapore standards. But as it is, the water is waiting to be used at least for gardening, washing and other such purposes. Except that the authorities prefer to, literally, just flush it down the river.