The State government on Monday termed Tamil Nadu questioning the State’s right to utilise Cauvery water as “illegal” and “inhuman”, and sought the Centre’s intervention to prevent the neighbouring state from raking up the water-sharing issue “unnecessarily”.

“The Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected Tamil Nadu’s interlocutory applications seeking its intervention. But Tamil Nadu has once again filed another application just to provoke us. Such attitude needs to be stopped, the Centre should intervene,” Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda told the Legislative Assembly on Monday.

Chandy to inaugurate World Water Day celebrations today

Launch of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), a digital monitoring system to control the water supply network in the city, will be a highlight of the World Water Day celebrations organised by the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) at Kanakakkunnu Palace on Thursday.

‘Everybody, irrespective of where they are living should be given water to drink and for non-potable uses as well'

In the densely populated Sangam Vihar, water and its limited supply is often the reason for skirmishes between neighbours and the cause for street fights. In the absence of a well regulated water supply from the city's water utility, the Delhi Jal Board,

KOLKATA, 2 MARCH: In a significant step towards levying of water tax in the city, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) through the KMC will launch a pilot project to supply round-the-clock water to a w

The All Kerala Water Authority Employees Union has come out against the recommendation of the National Planning Commission to privatise water-delivery services in the country.

Addressing a press conference here on Friday to announce the 12th State conference of the union, beginning at Nalanda Auditorium on Saturday, its office-bearers said such a move would result in making drinking water inaccessible to a large section of people.

The National Commission for Integrated Water Resource Development Plan (IWRDP) had in a policy recommendation categorically stated that the “Himalayan river linking project was not feasible for the period of review up to 2050”.

The IWRDP was set up by the ministry of water resources and provided a detailed brief on the southern rivers also stating that there was no need to rewrite geography of the peninsula rivers as there was “no imperative necessity for such massive water transfer”.