Page 2 - Water Crisis
Water crisis looms large in Pakistan, may face absolute scarcity by 2040
Amid the rising population and climate change, the availability of fresh water is becoming worrisome in South Asia, particularly in Pakistan, which may face absolute water scarcity by 2040
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Over 20 mn kids in India facing extremely high water vulnerability: UNICEF
More than two crore children in India are experiencing extremely high water vulnerability, according to an analysis by UNICEF
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Modi's next election play is ensuring clean water in all 192 mn rural homes
Programme aims to supply at least 55 litres of potable water to each person per day by building new pipelines.
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Multiple villages in West Bengal suffer acute water crisis, unemployment
More than 400 families of Kurmi Mahato, the Other Backward Class (OBC) community residing at Kalshi Bhanga have to trudge at least a kilometre to get drinking water
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Poor planning: How Chennai, one of the wettest cities, ran out of water
The ancient south Indian port has become a case study in what can go wrong when industrialisation, urbanisation and a booming metropolis paves over flood plain to meet demand for new homes, factories
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Up to 4.4 bn people will live with limited access to water in future: UN
The UN chief asked all people to play a role to help alleviate the shortage of water
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Water in the age of coronavirus
Most of us take comfort from the fact that we can get water from our taps and if we find that this is not clean enough, we simply switch to buying and drinking bottled water
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The next water decade
Water can be recycled and re-used and thus we may not have water wars. The real challenge is ensuring the sustainability of the water-supply systems
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When survival trumped bias
What years of education, social messaging and reservations couldn't accomplish, water scarcity did in one summer
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These villages have no water beneath the ground, and no hope in sight
The concluding part of a three-part series looks at recharge efforts in a Haryana village even as some farmers in Rajasthan neither have water nor hope
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Year in Review: Tamil Nadu suffered its worst water crisis in 2019
The capital city of Chennai and its neighbourhoods suffered one of the worst water crises in the summer of 2019, as dried up lakes and plummeting water tables added to the misery of the common man
7 J&K districts to get water connection by June 2020, rest by December 2021
He also said there will be 100 per cent piped water supply to all the households in the 20 districts of the union territory by December 2021, against the national target of 2024.
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Punjab to set up regulatory authority to check depletion of ground water
The cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, decided to promulgate an ordinance called the Punjab Water Resources (Management and Regulation) Ordinance, 2019, it sa
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The family that shared its well
A simple act of generosity has gone a long mile, women of the locality no longer have to battle over water
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How traditional water bodies can help India deal with looming water crisis
The Ministry of Jal Shakti was launched in May this year with the mandate to find solutions to India's escalating water crisis
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We have severely underinvested in waste water treatment: Veena Srinivasan
According to a NITI report, 21 cities in India will run out of groundwater which will affect 100 million people. Veena Srinivasan, a water expert, tells us what is India's problem with regard to water
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Meet the water warriors working with FORCE for mission 'blue planet'
FORCE, a Delhi-based organisation of water warriors, is pushing for rainwater harvesting and recharging systems, writes Geetanjali Krishna
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Water needs trans-disciplinary governance
Although groundwater now provides more than two-thirds of India's water, the more it has grown in significance, the weaker groundwater departments have become at the Centre and in the states
Govt plans to train women across villages to combat water crisis
Inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene cost India around 0.8 per cent of its gross domestic product, according to the World Bank
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Water laws still stuck in the 19th century
A popular but highly mistaken view is that converting water into a central subject would enable better management of India's water resources
