Water
The Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered the Haryana government to take action against builders for illegal use of groundwater. The court also ordered to seal all borewells at construction sites in Gurgaon over the next two weeks. The court order will have an adverse effect on nearly 450 ongoing commercial and residential projects. [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai could face serious water crisis as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) informed the city that its stock of water will last for only 124 days. At present, there is 10 per cent water cut in the city. The current usable water content available is only 62 per cent of what was available last year. [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Mayfield Gardens in Gurgaon suffered without any electricity and water for more than 24 hours as their transformer of 630 KVA power got burnt on Saturday night. Government bodies, like Town & Country Planning Department and HUDA said they were helpless and asked the residents to sort out the problem on their [...] Continue Reading »
With the increasing water and power crisis in Gurgaon, residents have now taken their protest to the streets. Residents of Badshahpur area, for the second time have staged a protest against the authorities for the poor water and electricity supply. They had gathered from morning and shouted slogans against the administration and created traffic jams [...] 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 »
A yellow coloured water is being supplied in Andheri West for many days. Many residents in the locality have complained of sickness, diarrhoea and other water borne diseases. They also say that there has been a unbearable stench, taste and colour seen in the water. Children and senior citizens of the locality are the most [...] 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 »
Untimely power cuts and scorching heat in the Gurgaon city has resulted in water shortage issues. However, despite many promises by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) to provide water, residents have to depend on water tankers. As the heat is increasing, the taps are going dry and upon that the civic body is not [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh residents have to follow the quote- ‘Early to bed, early to rise‘ very soon! With the summer setting in resulting in shortage of water, municipal corporation is about to cease afternoon supply of water. Due to which, residents of multi storied apartments in Chandigarh have to get up as early as 4 am and [...] Continue Reading »
There is a shortage of water in any way all over the country. However, the mineral water manufacturers are keeping themselves satisfied, keeping Hyderabad thristy. Local manufacturers have spread themselves to water rich areas like Alwal, Bowenpally, A S Rao Nagar, Qutbullapur, Bollarum, Miyapur, Kukatpally, BHEL, Lingampally and Sainikpuri and rented residential spaces to turn [...] Continue Reading »
