New Delhi People scramble to reach higher elevation. Over 2,000 families living along the periphery of the Munak Canal in Bawana woke up around midnight to loud noises and cries for help as water from a 50-foot-wide breach in the canal channel — that carries over a third of Delhi’s water supply — gushed into their localities. Those on upper …
Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has been releasing highly contaminated water from the city’s lakes into downstream water bodies leading to the Musi river. Corporation officials claim that this is the only possible way to protect the city lakes, even at the risk of contaminating downstream water bodies. Terming the dewatering and diversion of contaminated water from one lake …
