water las taken harvesting agua summer covid19 read sewage access potable safe villages city des para officials djb near diseases board microsoft mld end major days cauvery county bengaluru nations

Articles for Potable Water

With long list of civic woes, residents meet Noida CEO
3 months, 3 weeks ago

With long list of civic woes, residents meet Noida CEO

Hindustan Times  

A group of residents of Noida, led by the District Development RWA Federation, Gautam Budh Nagar, has submitted a comprehensive list of civic issues plaguing various areas of the city to the Noida authority CEO Lokesh M, and urged him to resolve the highlighted issues in a timely manner. Other issues flagged by the residents include the need for potable …

Traffic Water Traffic Congestion Road Noida Residents Issues
In dilemma, Delhi picks poor water quality over shortage: Report
4 months, 4 weeks ago

In dilemma, Delhi picks poor water quality over shortage: Report

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi Residents scramble to get their fill of water in summer. With Delhi needing around 1,290mgd of water per day and the installed capacity of Delhi Jal Board’s water plants at 950mgd, even old WTPs are being pushed beyond their capacity to meet the city’s water demands, given that projects to set up two new facilities at Dwarka and …

Delhi Treatment Supply Plants Dwarka Report Capacity
New spacesuit turns urine into drinking water in minutes
5 months, 4 weeks ago

New spacesuit turns urine into drinking water in minutes

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Astronauts on future Nasa missions could be drinking recycled urine from inside their …

Space Water Sign Indytech Spacesuit Potable Water Turns Urine
Drinking water harvested from thin air using breakthrough invention
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Drinking water harvested from thin air using breakthrough invention

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have invented a device that can extract drinking water from thin air …

Water System Indytech Newsletter Potable Water
Karnataka Dy CM DK Shivakumar warns officials of strict action over potable water quality
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Karnataka Dy CM DK Shivakumar warns officials of strict action over potable water quality

Hindustan Times  

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has issued a warning to officials that strict action will be taken if the quality of potable water is not maintained. DK Shivakumar warns officials of strict action over potable water quality In a letter to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Commissioner, Bengaluru Zilla Panchayat CEO, and BWSSB Chairman, the Deputy CM said on …

Officials Potable Water Dk Shivakumar Strict Action
Gurugram water crisis: Municipal body to impose ₹5,000 fine on residents if…
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Gurugram water crisis: Municipal body to impose ₹5,000 fine on residents if…

Hindustan Times  

A fine of ₹5000 will be imposed on Gurugram residents if they are found washing their vehicles or courtyards with potable water between 5am and 9 am. A fine of ₹ 5000 will be imposed on Gurgaon residents if they are found washing their vehicles or courtyards with potable water between 5am and 9 am. The decision has been taken …

Water Gurugram Gurgaon Mcg Potable Water
Drought, heat and mismanagement make getting fresh water an increasingly tough task
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Drought, heat and mismanagement make getting fresh water an increasingly tough task

Associated Press  

As the world warms from human-caused climate change, fresh water for drinking, cooking and cleaning is becoming harder to get for many people. Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn …

India Water Indian Haryana Drought Indonesia California
India’s Bengaluru is fast running out of water, and a long, scorching summer still looms
9 months, 3 weeks ago

India’s Bengaluru is fast running out of water, and a long, scorching summer still looms

Associated Press  

BENGALURU, India — Bhavani Mani Muthuvel and her family of nine have around five 20-liter buckets worth of water for the week for cooking, cleaning and household chores. A resident of Ambedkar Nagar, a low-income settlement in the shadows of the lavish headquarters of multiple global software companies in Bengaluru’s Whitefield neighborhood, Muthuvel is normally reliant on piped water, sourced …

Water City 2024 Groundwater Potable Water Whitefield Piped Water
Bengaluru water crisis: From using milk tankers, fixing rates, filling lakes to fines; How the city is tackling drought
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Bengaluru water crisis: From using milk tankers, fixing rates, filling lakes to fines; How the city is tackling drought

Live Mint  

Bengaluru water crisis: Residents of the city have been dealing with water shortage, which is mainly a result of the failure of both the southwest and the northeast monsoon in Karnataka Bengaluru water crisis: In light of the ongoing water crisis in the city, residents of Silicon Valley are calling for a shift to online work or work-from-home until the …

Karnataka Tamil Nadu Water City Crisis Cost State
New bore dwellers in Bengaluru must take permission from govt: BBMP amid water crisis
9 months, 4 weeks ago

New bore dwellers in Bengaluru must take permission from govt: BBMP amid water crisis

Hindustan Times  

As the city grapples with one of its worst water crises, the civic water board has warned of initiating legal action against those drilling unauthorised borewells, in yet another measure aimed at tiding over the situation. New bore dwellers in Bengaluru must take permission from govt: BBMP The move comes days after Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board banned the …

Bengaluru Water Bwssb Potable Water Bore Borewells Water Crisis
Provide road, potable water, park, Topa Peer ex-panch urges army
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Provide road, potable water, park, Topa Peer ex-panch urges army

Hindustan Times  

Mohammad Sadeeq, 45, former panch of Topa Peer village and uncle of Showkat Ali, one of the three men, who died of army’s alleged torture on December 22, on Thursday said that a Major along with some soldiers had come to their village three days ago and distributed two notebooks and a pencil each to around 10 children. Army chief …

Army Men Potable Water Poonch Peer Topa Peer Topa Peer Village
120 kms from Mumbai: Water dries up, anger boils over
1 year ago

120 kms from Mumbai: Water dries up, anger boils over

Hindustan Times  

SHAHAPUR: Citizens from three drought hit villages of Shahapur taluka -- Fugale, Aghanwadi and Varaswadi -- in Thane district have decided to boycott the Lok Sabha and state assembly elections next year. “We will not allow any election campaign in our villages till the time the government resolves the water crisis in our villages,” said Jeeva Bhala, sarpanch of Fugale. …

Water Villages Village Villagers Walk Drinking Water Potable Water
California is moving to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely decorative
1 year, 3 months ago

California is moving to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely decorative

LA Times  

A pedestrian crosses a median as traffic passes along San Vicente Blvd. The legislation prohibits using drinking water for purely decorative grass along roads, in medians and outside businesses and in common areas of homeowners associations. The legislation will make permanent a measure that California water regulators adopted last year during the drought — and readopted for another year in …

Water Cities Legislation Decorative California Businesses Areas
Plans afoot to set up first desalination plant for potable water in Puducherry
1 year, 6 months ago

Plans afoot to set up first desalination plant for potable water in Puducherry

The Hindu  

The Public Works Department in Puducherry has planned to set up a one MLD desalination plant on a pilot basis in the city, to overcome the depletion of groundwater sources and to meet the ever-expanding drinking water requirements of residents in the urban agglomeration limits. According to official sources, Puducherry is currently dependent on over 100 deep tube-wells in the …

Pwd Puducherry Plant Potable Water
Piped potable water across India will avert 4,00,000 diarrhoea deaths, finds WHO
1 year, 7 months ago

Piped potable water across India will avert 4,00,000 diarrhoea deaths, finds WHO

The Hindu  

“Were the Centre’s marquee Jal Jeevan Mission, a nearly ₹3.6 trillion enterprise to provide piped potable water to all of India, it would succeed in averting close to 4,00,000 deaths from diarrhoea, a modelling study by the World Health Organization and commissioned by the Jal Shakti Ministry,” reported on June 9. Additionally, this would avoid 14 million DALYS from diarrhoea, …

Water Potable Water Study Authors
62% of rural households in India have fully functional tap water connections within their premises, says Water Resources Ministry report
2 years, 3 months ago

62% of rural households in India have fully functional tap water connections within their premises, says Water Resources Ministry report

The Hindu  

Around 62% of rural households in India had fully functional tap water connections within their premises, according to a survey commissioned by the Union Ministry of Water Resources to assess the functioning of the government’s marquee Jal Jeevan Mission. Centre in June reported 52% rural households as having tap water connections Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, and Puducherry reported more …

Water Resources Water Union Reported Households Tap Potable Water
Water crisis: New Delhi got half of normal supply for last 10 days, says report
2 years, 7 months ago

Water crisis: New Delhi got half of normal supply for last 10 days, says report

Hindustan Times  

The ongoing water shortage in the national capital has hit supply to New Delhi Municipal Council areas, including Lutyens’ Delhi, with these localities receiving only 50-60% of its normal potable water supply over the last 10 days, a status report issued by the NDMC on Monday has showed. Water crisis: New Delhi got half of normal supply for last 10 …

Delhi Supply Water Haryana Normal New Delhi Report
New lithium technology can help the world go green -- if it works
2 years, 9 months ago

New lithium technology can help the world go green -- if it works

The Hindu  

Rio Tinto, General Motors and even the U.S. Energy Department are investing heavily in a crop of newer technologies that could revolutionise the way lithium is produced for electric vehicle batteries. Granholm's department has given Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc a $15 million grant to test DLE technology at California's Salton Sea, under which sit large geothermal lithium deposits, and …

Energy Water Potable Water Technologies Dle Lilac Dle Technology
California adopts drought rules outlawing water wasting, with fines of up to $500
3 years ago

California adopts drought rules outlawing water wasting, with fines of up to $500

LA Times  

In an effort to discourage wasteful water practices such as hosing off driveways or allowing irrigation water to run down streets, California water officials have imposed new drought rules for cities and towns throughout the state. He said the measures in the emergency drought regulations will “help with that mindset of water savings.” The new rules also prohibit, among other …

Board Water Regulations California Rules State Help
NGT asks Centre to regulate extraction of ground water used for maintenance of grounds during IPL
3 years, 8 months ago

NGT asks Centre to regulate extraction of ground water used for maintenance of grounds during IPL

Firstpost  

New Delhi: Expressing concern over use of potable water for maintaining cricket stadiums during IPL and other tournaments, the National Green Tribunal has directed the Ministry of Jal Shakti to hold a meeting within a month to consider the issue of regulating extraction of ground water for maintenance of play grounds. The issues for consideration may inter alia include prohibiting …

Cricket Water Ipl Ngt Ground Grounds Potable Water
4 crore rural households given water connections in last 1 and half years
3 years, 10 months ago

4 crore rural households given water connections in last 1 and half years

Op India  

PM Narendra Modi’s ambitious scheme of providing piped water to every household in the country has started with a massive success, as it has exceeded its target so far since its launch in 2019. Out of 19.19 crore rural households in India, only 16.87% of households had tap water connections till August 15, 2019, since the time of independence. Concerned …

India Water Rural States West Bengal Crore Narendra Modi
Coronavirus Outbreak: Centre advises states to ensure adequate safe drinking water supply during lockdown
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak: Centre advises states to ensure adequate safe drinking water supply during lockdown

Firstpost  

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued an advisory to states to ensure that safe potable water is available to citizens during the coronavirus lockdown, particularly in the rural areas where the facility of medical sanitisers may not be available. MOHFW has asked public health engineering departments/boards of the state government to increase supply in the areas where …

Water Potable Water Mohfw Potable
Tripura's Sabroom to get respite from water shortage as Bangladesh allows India to draw 1.82 cusecs from Feni river; here's why it's important
5 years, 3 months ago

Tripura's Sabroom to get respite from water shortage as Bangladesh allows India to draw 1.82 cusecs from Feni river; here's why it's important

Firstpost  

Bangladesh’s gesture provides some relief to Sabaroo residents who were forced to rely on groundwater as their only source of potable water, but that too is unfit for consumption due to high iron content In a much-needed relief for the people of Sabroom town in South Tripura, Bangladesh has agreed to let India withdraw 1.82 cusecs of water from Feni …

India Water Bangladesh Hasina High River Iron