May 19: The Water Board (HMWS&SB) swung into action on Tuesday following a Deccan Chronicle report about E. coli contamination in potable water in Marredpally and surrounding areas in the city.
The officials collected water samples and told residents in the affected areas to report immediately to the Water Board if they found contaminated water.

Poornima Nataraj,DH News Service,Bangalore:

As many as 4,29,898 households under new BBMP areas are yet to pay their water connection charges under the Greater Bangalore Water Supply Project (GBWSP), which was undertaken a year ago by the BWSSB to provide Cauvery water to them.

May 18: E. coli contamination of drinking water has spread to new areas in the city because of the laxity of the Water Board and the GHMC.
Samples from Marredpally, Addagutta and Azad Chandrasekhar Nagar have shown sufficiently large presence of E. coli bacteria, indicating mixing of human excreta with piped drinking water.

TWAD Board takes up laying of distribution pipelines

In full swing: Workers laying new drinking water distribution pipeline at Bharathi Nagar in Salem.

Deepa H Ramakrishnan

CHENNAI: With drinking water being supplied only once in five days, almost every container in homes in Tiruvottiyur is used to store water. Residents say that in the past one month the period of supply has been drastically reduced by half.

K. Lakshmi

CHENNAI: The 30-km pipeline from the upcoming 100 million litres a day desalination plant near Minjur to Red Hills has been laid by the Chennai Metrowater recently. However, a portion of construction work of the plant is yet to be completed.

DHAKA Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWSA) has earned a notoriety for claiming the largest share of road digging, and as if that was not enough, for supplying undrinkable water that even stinks in a large swathe of the metropolis. These sending livability index of Dhaka life further down, the denizens have had a plenty of reasons to feel hard done by.

Citizens of State capital are running from pillar to post in search of water as water has become a scarce commodity in the City but the service stations are indulging in criminal waste of water. Service stations are utilising thousands of litres of water every day by just paying Rs 60 per month.

Residents who do not pay water bills may have supply cut off people living in Hubli have one more identity card now in addition to voter cards, pan cards and other cards. The water supply board is issuing tap cards to residents of the Karnataka city to ensure they pay water bills on time. The cards were introduced in the first week of March to improve revenue collections.

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