Water

Monitoring dam safety

Decommissioning should be a policy option

Earth lost one-fifth of its wetlands since 1700, most could still be saved

Earth has lost one-fifth of its wetlands since 1700 but most could still be saved

IIT Guwahati, Bombay, European partners building water quality sensor

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati and Bombay in collaboration with European universities are working towards building a low-cost technology to check the quality of potable and other water in India. The LOTUS Indo-European project, an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and the European Commission, is aimed at providing solutions for issues related to the quality of water supplied across Indian households and elsewhere. A core element of the LOTUS project is a novel water quality sensor that builds on previous work done at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France. The sensor was further developed during the project by researchers at Universit Gustave Eiffel in collaboration with IIT Guwahati and the SME EGM, Sophia Antipolis, France. According to S Senthilmurugan, Chairperson, Technology Incubation Centre, IIT Guwahati, LOTUS water quality sensor requirements were established after collecting information from Indian water utility owners, operators, end users

NASA launches first-ever mission SWOT to observe nearly all water on Earth

SWOT will cover the entire Earth's surface between 78 degrees south and 78 degrees north latitude at least once every 21 days

AWS to return more water to communities than it uses by 2030: CEO

The Amazon company has committed to be water positive by 2030 and so far, AWS-funded replenishment projects have returned nearly 2.4 billion litres of water to communities and the environment

Eight out of 11 major dams in Maharashtra reached maximum storage capacity

Marathwada has already received 840 millimetres of rain this monsoon, or 123.62 per cent of the region's annual average rainfall of 679 millimetre

Water begins receding in Pakistan's worst flood-hit southern Sindh province

Floodwaters are receding in Pakistan's worst-hit southern Sindh province, officials said Friday, a potentially bright sign in an ongoing crisis that has left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in the impoverished South Asian country. The Indus River, which remained swollen until earlier this month, was now rushing at normal levels towards the Arabian Sea, according to Mohammad Irfan, an irrigation official in hard-hit Sindh. The water level in the past 48 hours receded as much as three feet in some of the inundated areas nearby, including the Khairpur and Johi towns, where waist-high water damaged crops and homes earlier this month. A day earlier, engineers had opened a key highway in the southwestern Baluchistan province, allowing rescue workers to speed aid to those suffering in a race against the spread of waterborne diseases and dengue fever. Still, hundreds of thousands of people in Sindh are living in makeshift homes and tents. Authorities say it will take months to ...

Planet Scuba India ropes in CREST to manufacture dive equipment in India

The company will introduce CREST Diving to DRDO's DEBEL and will aim to make India an alternative to China as a manufacturer of dive equipment

Water-wisdom for climate change

We need to scale up our work to invest in local water systems to capture every drop of rain so that we can build local resilience against drought

Water-from-air tech: Israel's Watergen inks JV with SMV Jaipuria Group

Israel-based company Watergen on Wednesday announced a strategic joint venture with SMV Jaipuria Group with a planned investment of more than $50 million (over Rs 387 crore) in the next 2-3 years

Rising temperatures can put our water security in serious jeopardy: CSE

What does this intense heat wave that has hit large parts of India so early this summer really mean?

India's water storage tops last years' level and 10-yr avg as heat rises

Govt data on 140 reservoirs shows 7.3 per cent higher levels than previous year

Very few recycling units, can't send water to Marathwada: Maha Minister

Maharashtra minister Jayant Patil on Tuesday informed the state Legislative Council that BMC had not undertaken enough water recycling projects

Rs 2.5-crore prize announced for innovators of drinking water solutions

The/Nudge Foundation has partnered Ashirvad Pipes and principal scientific adviser's office for the 18-month challenge

Stemming water insecurity

Agriculture is, by far, the largest consumer of water, accounting for more than 80 per cent of the water-use

Pearl Harbor military families alarmed after fuel detected in tap water

The Navy said on Thursday that tests had identified petroleum in its Red Hill well, which taps into an aquifer near the base

River rejuvenation and other innovations

The fourth in a series of weekly articles on the new National Water Policy

Focus on water quality & demand management

The third in a series of weekly articles on the new National Water Policy

Nature-based, people-centred solutions for water

The second in a series of weekly articles on the new National Water Policy

A new water policy for India

It marks a shift from the command-and-control approach to nature