The Sports Authority of Goa (SAG) ground at Agonda is turning out to be a

Balasun river: Horses are proving to be as effective as heavy machinery in the hills of Darjeeling. Hydraulic excavators on crawler belts using air compressors to break huge boulders are working alongside ponies on the banks of the Balasun as the company executing the Darjeeling Water Supply Scheme tries to meet its December 2009 deadline. The Hyderabad-based construction company, Ramky Infrastructure Ltd, stumbled on the idea of using horses after they observed the local villagers.

JOYNAGAR (South 24-Parganas): Drinking water scarcity is still a major problem for the residents of 100-year-old Joynagar Mazilpur Municipality. Two reservoirs had been inaugurated in the municipality (consisting of 14 wards) from 1978-1980 but 10 years later, drinking water scarcity became an issue again. The lack of maintenance rendered the two reservoirs decrepit resulting in the disruption of water supply.

Water tax in Salt Lake will be a reality only after water meters are installed in all commercial and residential buildings of the satellite township. A decision in this regard was taken at the board-of-councillors meeting of the Bidhannagar Municipality, today. This comes as a deviation from the municipality's previous decision where it was supposed to collect water tax from residential houses on the basis of property tax rates. Ferrule size was the determinant for commercial buildings until water meters are installed.

Water is called as Indrajal in mythology

Dozens of tail-end growers of Puran Distributary (canal) demonstrated outside the office of Director Nara Canal Area Water Board here on Monday against acute water shortage in canal. Protesters carried banners, raised slogans against irrigation officials and forcibly made their entry into the office in his absence. Later, talking to reporters they complained of being deprived of irrigation water for last four months which had adversely affected their crops, along with disappearance of drinking water, as well.

Punjab government has directed Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) to ensure complete chlorination of pipe water being supplied to the city. The step has been taken following complaints of supply of polluted potable water to various parts of the city. New tube-wells will also be installed where ever required to overcome water shortage and the out-dated pipelines will be replaced. Meanwhile, Solid Waste Management wing of the city district government has suspended a number of sanitary workers in various parts of the city on charges of negligence.

A defective sewerage system, industrial effluents and deserted water filtration plants are making the people of Gujrat to drink contaminated water. Gujrat's drinking water is contaminated with coliform bacteria. According to a study, human excretion is mixing in the drinking water because of the city's 40-year-old seeping sewerage system.

AS the results of the Karnataka Assembly elections trickled in on Sunday, among those following it very closely was Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president M Karunanidhi. The results are crucial to him not only as a key constituent of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, but also as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, which has been having a running battle with Karnataka on the Cauvery issue, with Hogenakkal being the latest one.

Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) are embroiled in a battle over road cutting. With MCD suddenly having decided to come down hard on