water crisis
The residents of Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) are facing severe drinking water problem. People are depending on water tankers to get water supply in the apartments in Guntur. Due to inadequate rainfall the ground water level has depleted. And as a result bore wells in many areas in the city failed to supply water. The [...] Continue Reading »
The water board in Hyderabad city is planning to pass orders in concern with implementing mini water recycling plants in the apartment premises. The rising demand for water has made water board take decision of setting up one in the house premises. These mini water recycling plants has been directed to be set up in [...] Continue Reading »
The commercial establishments and star hotels have taken up digging of bore wells and extraction of groundwater in Visakhapatnam. As tourism is an important aspect in the Visakhapatnam locality, the hotels and resorts has dug several bore well and misusing the water resources. Due to this unplanned digging of bore well several apartments in Vizag [...] Continue Reading »
In a press meet, the former MLA of Mangalore claimed that the water crisis in Mangalore happened as the government permitted several hydro power project to utilise the river water. According to the former minister the government should stopped the supply of water to the hydro energy projects in January, so that the residents will [...] Continue Reading »
The Chennai Corporation has planned to construct over 5,000 rainwater harvesting structures across the city. According to a corporation official, the structures will be constructed at 30-metre intervals at every third storm water drain inlet. A bore well pipe would be placed inside the inlets. Sand and blue metal would be filled in the pipe [...] 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 »
The apartments in Guwahati are struggling for a long time to an acute crisis of water. The situation will change in near future as two foreign-funded drinking water supply schemes will start providing 24 hrs water supply to households. The Guwahati Metropolitan Drinking Water and Sewerage Board reviewed the implementation schemes by Japan International Cooperation [...] Continue Reading »
The Mangalore City Corporation decided to supply water from bore well to get rid of the scarcity of water. After a visit to Thumbe Dam, the commissioner informed that the storage water can be supplied for maximum 45 days to the residents. To overcome the water crisis in the coming days the governing body will [...] Continue Reading »
The water supply department of Varanasi is struggling hard to facilitate water supply in most of the part of the city. As the ground water level is decreased, a number of bore well needs to be re-bored. According to an official, the work of laying water pipe line was delayed due to assembly elections, however [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Darjeeling are fearing of a sudden water crisis. As an effect of dry weather condition, the water level of the two reservoirs are decreasing by 2 inches every day. As the near future will be a attracting season for the tourists. With this the water crisis will hamper the life of the [...] Continue Reading »
