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Pakistan's Largest Water Reservoir Facing Acute Water Shortage
Tarbela Dam, Pakistan's largest water reservoir, is facing an acute water shortage and the dam continues to be at a dead level for the last couple of weeks.
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Bundelkhand Got Rains Last Year, But Water Crisis Continues
Three of the village's 4 hand pumps are running dry this summer. The wells are dry.
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Over 3.6 Crore Rural People At Risk Due To Unsafe Drinking Water: Government
Over 3.6 crore people living in more than 63,000 rural areas are exposed to health hazards due to drinking water quality problems like excess arsenic, fluoride, iron, salinity or nitrate.
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No Water, No Brides in this Delhi Village
The acute water crisis in Issapur village in Delhi's Najafgarh area not only drives villagers up the wall, it also drives away prospective brides.
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Israel Solves Water Woes With Desalination
After experiencing its driest winter on record, Israel is responding as never before - by doing nothing.
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Demand for Cauvery water
Unlike many other wards there is no acute shortage of water at most of the areas in Ganganagar Ward. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) authorities have taken measures to supply borewell water but the residents want the BBMP to ensure Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) supply Cauvery water to them.
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Pools to be built despite water crunch in Mumbai
For a city reeling under a water crisis, should swimming pools be allowed to be constructed, especially in upcoming housing complexes? If the number of pools proposed in projects under construction is anything to go by, the builder fraternity -- an optimistic lot -- certainly thinks so.
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Water Forum says will promote water, but fails to see it as human right
The week-long congregation of heads of states, ministers and experts at the Turkish capital of Istanbul dissolved on March 22 with a pledge to move water high on the national development plans while promoting more effective use of financial resources available from several sources for the sector.
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Global companies facing growing water risk, warn experts
Declining water availability and quality coupled with growing demand for the resource are creating immense challenges for global companies but very few are appreciating the new category of risk to their future businesses, experts have said.
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World facing bleak water future, warns UN
The world is staring at a bleak water future. Rapidly increasing global population levels, widespread mismanagement and rising demand for energy are tightening the grip on the world's evaporating water supplies, with climate change exacerbating the problem.
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Karunanidhi gives nod for resumption of Hogenakkal project
Giving the go ahead for resumption of work on the Hogenakkal project, which he had put on hold till the completion of Karnataka Assembly polls in the face protests, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has directed state officials to complete the work as scheduled by 2011.
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Bundelkhand: Villager digs spring of hope
A daily wage earner in Bundelkhand's Bijawar village has decided that the only way out of the drought is to dig a well. It is a simple enough idea but one he has then acted on, after his attempts to bore for water failed twice.
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Cattle in Bundelkhand die of thirst
Cattle in Bundelkhand are dying of thirst, but a region caught in it's worst ever drought is unable to navigate a way out. The administration has no contingency plan for these silent victims.
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Pakistan's Largest Water Reservoir Facing Acute Water Shortage
Tarbela Dam, Pakistan's largest water reservoir, is facing an acute water shortage and the dam continues to be at a dead level for the last couple of weeks.
-
Bundelkhand Got Rains Last Year, But Water Crisis Continues
Three of the village's 4 hand pumps are running dry this summer. The wells are dry.
-
Over 3.6 Crore Rural People At Risk Due To Unsafe Drinking Water: Government
Over 3.6 crore people living in more than 63,000 rural areas are exposed to health hazards due to drinking water quality problems like excess arsenic, fluoride, iron, salinity or nitrate.
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No Water, No Brides in this Delhi Village
The acute water crisis in Issapur village in Delhi's Najafgarh area not only drives villagers up the wall, it also drives away prospective brides.
-
Israel Solves Water Woes With Desalination
After experiencing its driest winter on record, Israel is responding as never before - by doing nothing.
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Demand for Cauvery water
Unlike many other wards there is no acute shortage of water at most of the areas in Ganganagar Ward. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) authorities have taken measures to supply borewell water but the residents want the BBMP to ensure Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) supply Cauvery water to them.
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Pools to be built despite water crunch in Mumbai
For a city reeling under a water crisis, should swimming pools be allowed to be constructed, especially in upcoming housing complexes? If the number of pools proposed in projects under construction is anything to go by, the builder fraternity -- an optimistic lot -- certainly thinks so.
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Water Forum says will promote water, but fails to see it as human right
The week-long congregation of heads of states, ministers and experts at the Turkish capital of Istanbul dissolved on March 22 with a pledge to move water high on the national development plans while promoting more effective use of financial resources available from several sources for the sector.
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Global companies facing growing water risk, warn experts
Declining water availability and quality coupled with growing demand for the resource are creating immense challenges for global companies but very few are appreciating the new category of risk to their future businesses, experts have said.
-
World facing bleak water future, warns UN
The world is staring at a bleak water future. Rapidly increasing global population levels, widespread mismanagement and rising demand for energy are tightening the grip on the world's evaporating water supplies, with climate change exacerbating the problem.
-
Karunanidhi gives nod for resumption of Hogenakkal project
Giving the go ahead for resumption of work on the Hogenakkal project, which he had put on hold till the completion of Karnataka Assembly polls in the face protests, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has directed state officials to complete the work as scheduled by 2011.
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Bundelkhand: Villager digs spring of hope
A daily wage earner in Bundelkhand's Bijawar village has decided that the only way out of the drought is to dig a well. It is a simple enough idea but one he has then acted on, after his attempts to bore for water failed twice.
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Cattle in Bundelkhand die of thirst
Cattle in Bundelkhand are dying of thirst, but a region caught in it's worst ever drought is unable to navigate a way out. The administration has no contingency plan for these silent victims.
