Hyderabad, Aug. 24: Residents of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board have been waiting for an additional supply of 15 lakh gallons of drinking water for the last four years. The SCB presently supplies 38 lakh gallons per day but the demand is for 50 lakh gallons. Residents of over 60 localities were to be the main beneficiaries of the additional water to be supplied from the Angadi Water Project which as grounded at a cost of over Rs 2.7 crore.

Shillong: The Centre has approved the Rs 193.49-crore project under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to complete the Greater Shillong Water Supply Scheme, bringing a hope for the city to ease the present water crisis.

Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee under JNNURM on Tuesday gave its approval to the detailed project report (DPR) on the Scheme. Principal Secretary of Urban Affairs Anoop Thakur and Commissioner Secretary PHE AK Bhalla represented the State in the meeting in New Delhi.

Mumbai, August 18 Housing societies finding suddenly larger bills prepare to cut down usage
With the city facing a water supply shortage of 800 million litres a day (mld), the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has located the 20,000 Mumbai families who will now shoulder the burden of consuming water in the most expensive bracket.

These families consume well above the national norm of 150 litres per capita per day and mostly belong to the affluent pockets between Bandra and Juhu, the BMC has found.

Work on the 20 million gallon per day capacity plant will be completed within 21 months

Project to improve substantially water supply in many colonies

Scheme of payment of water bills through 92 post offices to continue

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Jal Board on Wednesday gave its approval for construction of a 20 million gallon per day (MGD) capacity water treatment plant at Okhla that would be completed within 21 months from the award of work. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Board presided over by its chairperson, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.

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Every glass of water you drink reaches your doorstep after a long and fascinating journey. The story of that journey ought to be told as long as Bangalore thirsts for the precious commodity.

GUWAHATI, July 29

Hyderabad, July 27: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) will take up two major projects at a cost of over Rs 432 crore as part of infrastructure development under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

Why do the poor pay the highest price for water and the rich, who have piped connection, get the inexpensive water in our cities? Why is there an outbreak of water borne disease frequently due to polluted water?

What is lacking: There is lack of investment to price water price correctly or repair the system.

DH News Service, Bangalore:

The City will get drinking water on a daily basis from 2011, when work on the second phase of the Cauvery Water Supply Scheme Stage IV is complete, said Katta Subramanya Naidu, Minister for BWSSB, Excise, IT-BT and Information Department.

Pandurang Mhaske

Municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak shot down Shiv Sena executive chief Uddhav Thackeray's appeal to cut the water connection in highrises and construction sites in the city.

In view of the water cut in the city, Thackeray had recently appealed to the state government asking them to cut the water connection in highrises as well as the construction sites. This came in response to minister Ajit Pawar's demand that the water supply for agricultural purposes should be stopped.