Installed at a cost of Rs.9 lakh, it can treat 9,000 litres every day

New facility: Beach goers drink from the water purification plant that was inaugurated on the Marina beach on Tuesday.

D Daniel Raj

COIMBATORE: Restrictions on the sale of water sachets may be implemented ahead of `World Classical Tamil Conference

June 10: Elected representatives including MPs, MLCs and MLAs from the city on Thursday accused officials of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) of failing to stop polluted drinking water from being supplied to the city. They also alleged that the Board was giving wrong figures on the amount of water being supplied to the city every day.

Eleven slum dwellers, including two children, were taken ill after drinking tap water on Wednesday.

Of the 11 persons who displayed symptoms of water contamination like diarrhoea and vomiting, two were treated by the BBMP health officers while nine including two children were admitted to a private nursing home, said the Palike

JORHAT, June 3: An unusually high content of iron in the groundwater of the Northeastern states has posed a serious threat to the people living in this part of the country. It is found that, almost all the states of the region contain iron above the permissible level in drinking water.

Coming down heavily on illegal units manufacturing and selling bottled drinking water, the Delhi high court directed the government to tighten the noose around them.

Twenty-two children from New Life Centre for Girls in Bharathinagar, took ill after consuming contaminated water on Wednesday.

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday announced an ambitious pan-Punjab project to provide clean portable water to all cities in the State under which Reverse Osmosis system (ROs) would be installed in every municipal ward of all cities.

Chandigarh With the dry and hot weather spell gripping the region, cases of gastric problems, typhoid and other related illnesses are pouring in at city hospitals and civil dispensaries. Doctors say more than 10 to 15 such cases are being reported daily at OPDs and most patients are from peripheral areas where the quality of drinking water is under scanner.

The Himachal Pradesh Government has issued a notice to Oberoi Group