The City is set to face another thirsty summer this year with 15 per cent of the work on the much-awaited Cauvery IV Stage II Phase yet to be completed.

The project, launched in November 2009, was expected to be completed by February 28, 2012. The Rs 1,766-crore project taken up by the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board will supply an additional 500 million litres per day to the City. It is expected to be commissioned by June 2012.

Sterlite Copper has sponsored Rs 2.7 lakh towards a drinking water project at Vadakkusilukkanpatti.

A distinctive feature of the book under review is that it focusses on the diplomatic and geopolitical dimensions of water, rather than its physical, economic, or other aspects. Also it looks at it from the perspective of Asian continent as a whole, instead of in the national, regional or basin context.

A product of intensive research by one of the internationally known scholars in the geopolitical dimensions of water, the book traces the emerging water tensions against the backdrop of the booming economies of China and India.

Hyderabad is staring at a drinking water crisis as Osmansagar and Himay-atsagar are fast drying up. The water available in the two reservoirs will be sufficient up to May only through gravity .

Indians know little about the water they use and the waste they discharge

Water is life, and sewage tells its life story. This is the subject of the “Citizens’ Seventh Report on the State of India’s Environment”, Excreta Matters: How urban India is soaking up water, polluting rivers and drowning in its own excreta. It has a seemingly simple plot: it only asks where Indian cities get their water from and where their waste goes. But this is not just a question or answer about water, pollution and waste.

With various political parties championing the issue, the acute drinking water problem here has once again come to the fore.

They are pressing for immediate implementation of the Thalayazham drinking water project for which. the LDF government had sanctioned Rs.26 crore. Meanwhile, Irrigation Minister P.J. Joseph has called for a review meeting of the various projects in February. Interestingly, the agitation by the CPI(M) falls on the same day on which the local MLA, K. Ajith of the CPI, had called a review meeting of the project.

A drinking water crisis is looming large over the Cantonment areas while the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board and the Secunderabad Cantonment Board spar over payment of water

KOLKATA, 15 JAN: The state government's decision to facilitate farming through watershed management in around 3.40 lakh hectares of land that has been lying barren due to water scarcity reinstates

Former Union Water Resources Secretary Ramaswamy R.

Karnataka has sought Rs 2,605.99 cr

Citing that the drought situation in the State is indeed of a serious nature, the Central team which visited the State to assess the drought situation in December has opined that there is no exaggeration in Karnataka’s claims.