come May, water may no longer be free for Kolkata residents. The city has decided to levy a water tax. "The idea is to recover the operation and maintenance costs of supplying water,' says B K

THE taps are beginning to run dry in the Capital, although summer's scarcely begun. It's symbolic of a deep-seated problem in the water sector.

The monsoon may be a few months away, but residents of the financial capital would do well to start praying for abundant rains this year.

Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority has not properly utilised its water supply scheme which was laid to supply potable Narmada water to 1.8 lakh units in western of Ahmedabad, says the CAG report.

After a short-lived reprieve, Delhi is back to facing a shortage of water.

For the third day in a row Gurgaon continued to reel under an unprecedented water crisis caused by the discontinuation in the supply of water following a breach in the Gurgaon canal.

First Mayor Sanjeev Naik shared some good news for residents of Vashi as finally the dry Morbe dam water pipelines laid by NMMC between Kalamboli and Vashi supply water to the city.

It would take another four years, 2012, for the Cauvery Stage IV Phase-II project to get completed as scheduled and provide every citizen 150 Litres Per Day (LPD).

Arun Mathur, CEO DJB is confident that the DJB will go from strength to strength

The weekend started off on an uncomfortably warm note and Delhiites had to bear the worst of it with water supply showing no signs of improvement.