The Citizens’ Front for Water Democracy and Water Workers Alliance, groups working against the privatization of water in Delhi, have alleged a scam of more than Rs 4,000 crore in the Nangloi water

The Delhi Jal Board escalated the cost of the public private partnership project being carried out in Nangloi to extend benefit to the private company that has been awarded the work, a non-government organisation opposing the PPP model has claimed.

The NGO, Citizen Front for Water Democracy, has alleged that the cost estimated for the work is higher than the prevailing market price and that the DJB has fabricated the data and actual figures of treatment of water at the Nangloi Water Treatment Plant.

Following the Supreme Court’s directive to Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from December 5 to 9, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has decided to take a delegation to Delhi

Hundreds of farmers staged protests in Karnataka’s Mandya district on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ordered the State to release water at the rate of 10,000 cusecs (cubic feet per second) to Ta

Asks Centre to indicate time frame for notifying final decision of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal

A day after talks failed between the CMs of TN and Karnataka on the Cauvery dispute, the Supreme Court Friday directed the counsels of both the governments to file compilation of the documents whic

Chief Ministers Shettar and Jayalalithaa fail to break the deadlock over water-sharing

BMC will set up a committee to enable equitable distribution of water in the city.

The committee will survey the distribution system to identify areas where supply is not equal. Additional municipal commissioner Rajeev Jalota told a standing committee meeting on Monday, “Through the committee headed by Mahadev Chitale, BMC will conduct a survey and try to meet the water demand of the population. There are a number of areas with high density of people receiving less water, while other areas with low population receive a good amount.”

Accused of allowing huge cost overruns in award of work for revamping the water transmission and distribution system in the Capital’s Nangloi area on a public-private partnership basis, the Delhi Jal Board on Thursday vehemently denied the charges and said comparisons could not be drawn between the Nangloi project and other similar works.

A non-government organisation, Citizens’ Front for Water Democracy, had accused the DJB recently of allowing work to be carried out on inflated rates and comparing the Nangloi project with a similar one in Patna, saying the cost difference between the two was a whopping Rs. 1,000 crore.

Justice Sachar writes to Sheila: “Consumers will have to pay more for services”

A non-government organisation, the Water Privatisation-Commercialisation Resistance Committee (WPCRC), has written to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit against privatising the water sector in the Capital. Drawing comparisons with privatisation of the power sector carried out earlier, the WPCRC has pointed out that bringing private companies into the water sector would mean consumers having to pay more for services.