Sri Lanka and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a USD 100 million loan agreement recently to launch the Greater Colombo Wastewater Management Project.

New Delhi: Most parts of south, west and central Delhi will have to go without water on December 18 and 19 due to the closure of a canal that provides water to the Haiderpur and Nangloi water treatment plants (WTP). According to sources, the Delhi subbranch canal that supplies water to the WTPs has to be closed to carry out some construction work.

There are no self-cleaning weeds in the pool. There are no whirring windmills or glistening solar panels on the rooftop. There is no organic garden in the backyard. Yet, Bangalore

Mumbai Desalination plant :

Mumbai: Water woes for the city seem to be unending. Soon, people residing in high-rises and big housing complexes will have to reduce their municipal water consumption, so that others living in smaller societies get their quota of supply.

P B Jayakumar / Mumbai November 27, 2009, 1:28 IST

Industrialisation, technology, urban need make commercial water supply a growing opportunity.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is likely to modify the proposal of setting up of grey water recycling facility to treat household non-toxic waste water, by asking the builders to develop the space above the treatment plant as garden.

A 300-sq ft area must be compulsorily designated for the recycling tank on top of which the space will have to be utilised for garden.

- Squat protest by 200 at pollution board public hearing

Over 200 villagers voiced their opposition to an integrated steel plant at a public hearing organised by the state pollution control board at a village in adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district today, in yet another indication of local residents

The Government will slash the selling price of recycled water and establish 20 supply points to promote its use for nonpotable purposes.