KOCHI: Though Kochi Corporation is spending crores to quench the thirst of various divisions under its limit, a majority of areas are still reeling under potable water crisis.

In West Kochi, divisions including Edakochi, Thazhappu, Fort Kochi, Kalvathy, Iraveli, Karipalam, Mattanchery and Cheralai are worst hit.

TURA: West Garo Hills district administration has constituted a water supply cell with the objective of ensuring adequate supply of potable water to Tura Municipal areas and surrounding localities.

The members of the cell are the Superintending and Executive Engineer, PHE, Tura, Additional Superintendent of Police, Tura, PK Boro, EAC and C N Sangma, EAC.

Here is good news for residents of wards 19, 26 and 27 as the much-awaited drinking water scheme for them, executed at an outlay of Rs.17.80 crore, is expected to be commissioned before April 15 following a trial run to be conducted within a fortnight.

As final works like connecting the main pipes near the overhead tanks, installing the electric panels in the pump houses, giving facelift to the pump rooms etc. are to be completed, trial run of this ambitious drinking water programme to check for leakages, if any, is to be taken-up within March 25.

SHILLONG: The acute water scarcity that has hit Tura, West Garo Hills for the past two weeks has not only stirred anger among the residents of Tura but also the Sangma siblings who have asked the authorities concerned to take control of the matter and resolve the problem as soon as possible.

Union Minister of State for Rural Development Agatha K Sangma who is currently in Shillong has called upon Chief Secretary WMS Pariat to take serious note of the problem and resolve it at the earliest.

Techies working in Electronics City told to use water sparingly and judiciously. Techies in Electronics City are the latest victims of Bangalore’s worsening water crisis.

Faced with severe water shortage and mounting cost of ensuring regular supply, companies there have asked employees to drastically cut down the use of water in office.

DERGAON, March 6 – Though the State Government as well as the Forest Department claim to have achieved success in conservation of wildlife, the ground reality tells a different story.

The Central Travancore district of Pathanamthitta, especially its hilly tracts, is fast sliding into the grip of acute drinking water scarcity.

The summer had an early onset in January. Wells and natural streams in the hilly areas of Ranni, Konni and Adoor started drying up from mid-January onwards, leaving the common people in a difficult situation.

Groundwater levels plummet; dried up wells, boreswells and tanks a common sight

A drinking water crisis looms large over Anantapur district. With the monsoon playing truant and the water from the Tungabhadra High Level canal mismanaged, groundwater levels around the district have plummeted to depths unheard of before. Dried up bores, wells and tanks are the order of the day in the district.

The quality of water supplied by Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) is unlikely to improve before monsoon as the water of the Buriganga and Shitalakkhya rivers is highly polluted, says Wasa Chairm

Growing water shortages carry economic risks that are as damaging as political corruption