Water scarcity
In order to save water, members of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations of India (Credai), Pune Metro have decided not to use drinking water at construction sites. A circular has been issued to the members informing them about the water crisis resulting from insufficient rainfall along with techniques to save water by Satish [...] 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 »
Home buyers in Gurgaon are worried over the high court’s order of ban on issuing fresh licences to builders due to water scarcity in the city. Home buyers are apprehensive as the order might push the delivery deadlines and cause a hike in real estate projects. Property prices are likely to go up citing an [...] Continue Reading »
The nation’s capital has been witnessing severe water scarcity, intense heat and burning greens nowadays. There is an acute shortage of water in Delhi as a result of which green covers are scorching up. Almost 20 per cent of the plants and grass are getting dried up in the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) area [...] Continue Reading »
Water scarcity has reached alarming proportions, ponds and water bodies in Baripada town are being used as dumping yards. The Government, on its part, is showing little interest in renovating them. It is noticed that different shopkeepers have encroached on some portions of the ponds to open their stalls, in other areas they are filled [...] Continue Reading »
Water scarcity is going to be a challenge for the residents as well as for different civic authorities in India. To overcome the crisis, experts from the industry sector and real estate urged that industries and builders need to implement rainwater harvesting in projects in India. According to the experts, government must provide assistance in [...] Continue Reading »
The environmental condition in Gurgaon is deteriorating day by day. Besides infrastructural development, water, air, and noise pollution levels are also on a rise. Activists say that there is still hope but only if the residents of the city act. There are many reasons to be worried about like water scarcity, water pollution and ground [...] Continue Reading »
When the whole of India is worried about the increase in water supply shortage, there is another issue to be looked for at Ghaziabad in Delhi NCR. It has been learnt that there is rapid increase in illegal water supply connections that has increased the percentage of water scarcity in the city. The residents of [...] Continue Reading »
The Pune Municipal Corporation has ordered to install water meter for all residential and commercial properties. The municipality has directed all construction sites as well as hotels, resorts and amusement parks to control the water usage. The authority also asked the residents owner and the tenants to install the water meter to control the usage [...] Continue Reading »
Jubilee Hills that was before is not the same now. The posh locality that it was, which housed most of the buildings, shopping malls and plush houses in Hyderabad, now consists of most of the slum areas. 80% of its residents live in various slum areas in this locality. This is because, despite of being [...] Continue Reading »
