Madikeri/Kushalnagar,DH News Service:

Rivulets and rivers in Kodagu emerged in full spate on Thursday too owing to heavy rains. The district administration has extended holidays for schools for two more days, on Friday and Saturday (July 10 and 11).

July 9: Deficit rainfall in catchment areas of rivers Krishna and Godavari in Maharashtra and Karnataka has drastically shrunk water levels in major reservoirs in the state.
The situation has worsened due to construction of barrages across the two major lifelines to the state.

AMIT AGNIHOTRI and PRASHANT PANDEY
July 9: Concerned over a weak monsoon system, which has eluded north-west India affecting sowing of kharif crops, the agriculture ministry is still not terming it as a drought-like situation.

While the state is still awaiting adequate rainfall, most of the lakes, ponds and water bodies are driying up fast.

What has made matters worse for the aam admi, mainly farmers, is the erratic power supply beacuse of which the government-owned tubewells have also come to a standstill.

Urban Administration and Development Minister Babulal Gaur today assured the Assembly that the government was vowed to resolve the acute water crisis in the state and introduced several steps to sort out the problem.

As many as 20,000 people of 12 revenue villages under Bhuragaon revenue circle in Morigaon district have been adversely affected by the current wave of Brahmaputra floods.

The weather condition and shortage of rainfall have seriously affected tea production not only in India but also in other tea producing countries of the world. However, despite shortage of production, India

LUCKNOW: The population of Lucknow has almost doubled in the past two decades and so has its demand for water. Today population of the city is nearly 30 lakh. A population of one lakh, including migrants, is being added every year. Although the Jal Sansthan says that water demand is about 480 million litre daily (mld), unofficially the demand today is said to be over 800 mld.