Underground water reserves in around 9 out of every 10 Chinese cities are polluted or overexploited, and could take hundreds of years to recover, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.

A massive drive is being launched to remove encroachments and other infringements and violations on Dal and Nigeen lakes and other water bodies in and around Srinagar, chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad

A college in the United States has decided to stop buying Coca-Cola products in protest against the company's global practices and has sought an independent investigation into allegations of water

The Economic survey for Delhi for the year 2005-06 was released recently by the Delhi's finance and planning minister AK Walia. The survey that provides analytical data for a large number of

Passions continued to simmer in Kerala while VS Achuthanandan and M Karunanidhi were agreeing to disagree in the Mullaperiyar dam issue at New Delhi today. In contrast to the relative quiet in Tamil

Tamil Nadu was all for an amicable solution on the Mullaperiyar issue to ensure that farmers of the state's southern districts got the required water for irrigation and drinking needs, CM M

The untreated urban sewage and effluents that flow into the Great Lakes each year are threatening a critical ecosystem that supplies water to millions of people, according to a study by a Canadian

The authorities are expected to launch a major drive to clean up the effluent-ridden Yamuna and overhaul the city's doddering drainage system in a bid to spruce up the Capital ahead of the 2010

The Andhra Pradesh Government will levy a 'green tax' on all old automobile vehicles in use from as a disincentive for pollution. The tax entails levy of a token annual tax of Rs. 50 on two-wheelers