Mumbai Some of the government-run residential schools (ashram shalas) that had been closed for a water shortage opened on Monday following instructions from the district tribal development department to make alternative arrangements for supply.

Seven schools still remain shut.

The Delhi Jal Board has been found woefully short in providing adequate water supply in the city, with its leaking pipe networks reporting a wastage of a huge 40 per cent of water in its distribution channel. The DJB has also fallen short in meeting its own target of 855 MGD (million gallon per day) by March this year as it could reach the level of 785 MGD by the target date.

CHENNAI: The State Human Rights Commission on Monday ordered that the Commissioner, Chennai Corporation, the Managing Director, Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board and the Chairman, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, file a report in two weeks with regard to a media report about contaminated drinking water supply at Virugambakkam here.

CHENNAI: The State Human Rights Commission on Monday ordered that the Commissioner, the Chennai Corporation, the Managing Director, Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board and the Chairman, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, file a report in two weeks with regard to a media report about contaminated drinking water supply at Virugambakkam here.

The prolonged ADB project, which has been going on at snail

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who is also the Delhi Jal Board chairperson, on Friday instructed the Jal Board to designate a separate officer for every Delhi Assembly segment to monitor day-to-day water-related issues.

The BWSSB has decided to supply treated water in all areas at 50 per cent of the cost of drinking water that is being supplied now. Treated water supply will begin within six months, Bangalore Water Supply Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu told reporters on Friday.

Want to save on the monthly water bill? Then use treated water for all your non-potable purposes from the BWSSB.

New Delhi: Delhi Jal Board (DJB) CEO Ramesh Negi on Thursday said that DJB will soon contract leakage management for the city to private enterprises to minimise loss of water.

June 9: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has informed the state government that it cannot fund the Godavari water project. The corporation was asked to provide Rs 960 crore to the water board over a period of two years for the execution of the Rs 3,375 crore Phase-I of the Godavari project aimed at bringing 10 TMC of water to the city by the end of 2011.

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It is in the process of installing sluice valves in water distribution network

Improvement measures: Construction of additional underground sumps such as this one in Kilpauk Water Works is part of Chennai Metrowater