Three years after Sirsa witnessed one of the worst floods, the authorities here seem ill-prepared to deal with any eventuality, even as the monsoon has started creating havoc in several parts of No

General category would be allotted 15,000 connections (60 per cent), priority categories 7,500 (30 per cent), besides 2,500 (10 per cent) to the miscellaneous category

Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal today accorded sanction to 280 tube wells at a cost of Rs 108 crore for the kandi region to overcome paucity of irrigation water.

In an effort to spread awareness about conserving groundwater level and proper utilization of rainwater for storage, the groundwater department has chalked out a fresh strategy inducting educationa

NANDIAD: Can you irrigate a farmland using a locally dug groundwater recharge well?

A water recycling project that was inaugurated on Monday in Vasant Kunj aims to keep colony parks green without using up fresh ground water.

In forty six wells >150 m deep, from across the arsenic-polluted area of south-central Bangladesh, groundwater composition remained unchanged between 1998 and 2011. No evidence of deteriorating water quality was found in terms of arsenic, iron, manganese, boron, barium or salinity over this period of 13 years. These deep tubewells have achieved operating lives of more than 20 years with minimal institutional support.

Central to the concept of Participatory Groundwater Management is community ownership and treatment of groundwater as a common property resource.

KANPUR: The drinking water supply situation in Kanpur south and other parts of the city is worsening.

New Delhi: In the absence of additional water from the Munak canal, Delhi Jal Board has put in place several measures to ensure that water distribution is not affected this summer when demand is ex

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