The population of the world, long expected to stabilize just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected in a report released Tuesday.

Children at a community clinic in the village of Kanaja in Malawi on Sept. 7, 2009.

The acute potable water crisis gripping rural Bihar has prompted the Nitish Kumar government to introduce

- Rs 51 crore plan to lay new pipelines from Damodar to city will take another year
Residents of Chas, living through a severe water crisis, are looking at another year of hardship with the Rs 51.02 crore project to lay a new pipeline to the city staring at further delays despite assurances to the contrary by deputy chief minister Hemant Soren.

The Union government funded project, okayed in 20

Tribal Development Minister and Ujjain District In-charge Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah has instructed the officials to find a solution to deal with drinking water crisis. He also asked to install solar energy pump in order to conduct 'Nal-Jal Yojna' smoothly. Kunwar Vijay Shah was addressing the meeting of district planning committee at Ujjain on Friday.

KARUR: There has been a spurt in the number of people taking to the streets protesting the scarcity of water in their localities in several parts of the district last week.

Residents of Chokkasandra, a locality in Dasarahalli, share a common mission with their illustrious neighbour - Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Both of them are on a mission to look for water, just that they are looking for the resource at different places.

In KR Puram, water comes at a price
Any new visitor to K R Puram, one of the oldest suburbs in the City

Deputy chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday assured adequate funding from the Centre to end water scarcity in Rajasthan, particularly in the border districts including Jaisalmer and Barmer.

Ahluwalia along with Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot was on a daylong visit to the water project sites in Jaisalmer district and took stock of the ongoing work.

"The

The Centre will come up with a new National Water Policy next year that will address the issues of water scarcity, management and conservation, Union Water Resources Minister Salman Khurshid said here on Monday.

The Ministry has already undertaken an exercise to review the National Water Policy of 2002, and is holding consultations with various stakeholders on the new policy, which would take o

Thirsty City: Over 1,000 units in Bommasandra Industrial Estate face water scarcity TN waters hopes as City struggles

BANGALORE: In yet another indication that the State is failing to retain industries within its boundaries, many industrial units operating in areas bordering with Tamil Nadu