Groundwater
Bangalore- Mandur residents are annoyed as the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) continues unsystematic dumping of mixed garbage at the landfill without providing them adequate health services and drinking water as promised earlier. Residents are exposed to health hazards as the garbage is being dumped unscientifically. Dangerous diseases like dengue, influenza and malaria have become [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- Owing to depleting water level in the Tippagondanahalli Reservoir (TGR), the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has discontinued water supply to the city from the reservoir from past three weeks. Lack of rainfall has led to low water level following which came the decision of stopping water supply. Recently, the water level [...] Continue Reading »
Adarshnagar, which was a farmland two decades ago, has now developed into a good residential area with a total population of 22,000 with about 8,000 households. Owing to its connectivity to NH 5 on the Vizianagaram road and fast development, Adarshnagar, holds all the facilities of a posh township. It was earlier a rural area [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- The city’s dumping yards- Perungudi and Kodungaiyur- filled with smoke, stench, pollution, illness, dislocation and protest have become a view of distress. The Chennai Corporation is in the final stage of finding a way out to its problem of garbage accumulation. People residing in localities in the vicinity of dumping yards forced the civic [...] Continue Reading »
While realty is growing in Kerala, especially in cities like Kochi, drinking water supply in flats have remained irregular for months. Occupants of newly-built flats in Kalamassery, Thrikkakara, and Kakkanad are facing water shortage forcing them to buy water sold through tanker Lorries. Since they cannot get access to water supply, flat dwellers have to [...] Continue Reading »
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to tackle the arsenic threat looming large over the residential areas of the city. As per the new rules charted out by KMC, it has been made mandatory for promoters in certain parts of the city to get groundwater tested for arsenic before they can submit building plans. The [...] Continue Reading »
To check the depleting groundwater level, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has come up with a plan to constitute a special committee. The committee is to be headed by two superintending engineers (SEs) who will visit houses in Gurgaon to check defunct water harvesting pits. As per norms, to obtain a completion certificate from [...] Continue Reading »
Concerned over the deepening water crisis and depleting groundwater table, experts say that it may leave Noida almost dry in the next few years. Builders and developers have been extracting groundwater from past few years, which may soon see people struggling for water, say experts. The city has already been placed under the ‘semi-critical’ category [...] Continue Reading »
In 2007, the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) had cautioned Gurgaon that if it continuously uses groundwater at high extent, then the resource would be exhausted by 2017. But the Haryana government overlooked the warning and continued issuing licences to real estate companies which abruptly exploited the resource. According to experts, Gurgaon has been drawing [...] Continue Reading »
In the light of recent studies revealing that almost a third of groundwater aquifers are semi-critical, critical and over-exploited and 60 per cent of the groundwater blocks could turn critical by 2025, the government has come up with plans to change groundwater management rules. The government aims to pass a framework law under Article 252 [...] Continue Reading »
