Drinking water
Residents across Chennai have been complaining about sewage overflow for the last few months. However, the civic bodies are yet to take up any action to address the issue. Residents of Sixth Street, R.V.Nagar, Anna Nagar, have been putting up with stench, flies and sewage on the road. Sewage has been overflowing from manholes in [...] Continue Reading »
As a responsive measure to the depletion of groundwater at a great speed, the apex body for real estate Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) has decided to adopt rain water harvesting as corporate social responsibility (CSR) this year. The announcement comes two days following the Punjab and Haryana High Court directed [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi Jal Board and Singapore Cooperation Enterprise will be signing an agreement on Wednesday for treatment of sewage water for drinking purposes at the Coronation Pillar sewage treatment plant. Singapore-based Temasek Foundation will be funding 70 per cent of the total project cost. A water restoration plant will be built, which has a capacity of 40 million gallons per day, [...] Continue Reading »
Magadi Road residents have been living in hell as the drinking water they are getting has a stinking smell and due to that they have to borrow water from neighboring localities. The residents had recently blocked the roads and protested against the political party which serves their area. They alleged that the neighbourhood areas get clean water [...] Continue Reading »
Apartments in Chennai have been witnessing a shortage in water supply in recent times. Residents are seen complaining over low pressure in drinking water and piped water supply. Apart from this, Chennai corporation did a survey of 2,503 locations for chlorine levels in water and found 76 places without much level of chlorination. Mogappair West [...] Continue Reading »
It is found that due to uneven rainfall and delay in monsoon has reduced the water level of the Krishna Raja Sagar reservoir (KRS). The residents of Bangalore, Mandy and Mysore get water supply from this reservoir. Currently residents of different apartments and houses in Bangalore receive 900 mld (million litres daily) of water from [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Orissa are asked to save water as the government has planned a new tariff for the water usage in the state. According to the bill, the tariff will be increased by 3 percent every year. The government has also decided that telescopic tariff will be levied on all categories of consumers. For [...] Continue Reading »
The Yettinahole water project will be launched by June 20th, as reported by a state government official. This water project will serve the purpose of providing pure drinking water for the residents of Kolar, Chikballapur, Bangalore Rural, Tumkur and Ramangaram districts. The estimated cost of the project is Rs 200 crore and the government has [...] Continue Reading »
The sources of drinking water for Nandigama Municipality are not enough to meet the increasing demand of the local body. People are forced to depend on the groundwater which is highly contaminated by fluoride content. The Municipality is not able to maintain the supply of the drinking water at the localities in Krishna district. The [...] Continue Reading »
Is the water you consume daily fit for drinking? Every human needs at least one or two litres of safe drinking water every day! Many of us assume that the water we get from taps and shallow or deep bore wells are fit for drinking. Which has been proved incorrect unfortunately! This came into light only [...] Continue Reading »
