New Delhi Mumbai and Delhi which are presently reeling under water crisis will require the maximum supply of the municipal tap water in the world by 2025, according to a Mckinsey Global Institute report.

Mumbai tops the list of the 20 global cities in terms of municipal water demand in the next 13 years, followed by Delhi, the report said. Three other Indian cities — Kolkata, Pune and Hyderabad — are ranked seventh, 12th and 16th respectively in the list of 20 cities needing the maximum supply.

On the advice of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the government has allocated Rs.6,995.54 million for the development of roads running across Puttalama and Kurunegala districts in the Wayamba Province

MELBOURNE'S expanding urban growth boundary is forecast to hit remnant populations of one of the state's most endangered frogs, just as new figures show an almost 30 per cent drop in growling grass

Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) on the proposed Vizhinjam international port and container transhipment terminal project is expected to be completed by June 30.

Rainwater can be a potential alternative source for tackling acute water crisis faced by rural and urban people, said experts yesterday.

The world’s city dwellers are fast producing more and more trash in a “looming crisis” that will pose huge financial and environmental burdens, the World Bank warned Wednesday.

The urban growth in mandals in the State has declined by 3.5 per cent during 2001-11 compared with the previous decade, according Census data.

The Bihar Government today sanctioned Rs 2,552.86 crore for construction of a 552.3 km two-lane road project on the Indo-Nepal border that will run parallel to the East-West Corridor.

One striking feature of demographic changes in the state reflected in Census 2011 data is the sharp rise in the number of “census towns” from 93 in 2001 to 228 in 2011, indicating that people from