Acute drinking water scarcity rages on in different parts of Haldwani city and its adjacent areas with the officials concerned remaining laggard.

Puri: Out of total 8,145 existing tube wells in Puri, water of as many as 2,168 have been tested contaminated. The tests were done in the wake of the jaundice outbreak in the town.

DHAKA : Although chlorine is widely used for making water safe and clean, an icddr,b study suggests that safe storage and handling practices are sufficient for reducing tube-well water contaminatio

There are a number of notifications and orders on rainwater harvesting but few of them have been implemented.

A week after a two-and-a-half-year- old boy died after falling into a 350-foot deep borewell near Arcot in Vellore district, a Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Madras High Court see

The coal-rich Belpahar town is facing acute water shortage.

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With the onset of summer season, drinking water crisis has also started giving a tough to the citizens here.

Agra: The state government has sanctioned funds to install 150 water hand pumps in urban areas of the city.

Based on primary data collected from 105 farming households spread across three districts and nine villages of central Punjab, this study examines groundwater depletion and consequent shifts of the farmers from centrifugal to submersible pumps. It also documents adaptation strategies of farmers in response to groundwater depletion. Owing to groundwater depletion, borewell deepening started in the 1980s and was witnessed on almost all the farms by the mid-1990s.

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