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Jal Jeevan Mission starts to monitor and measure tap water supply

The Jal Jeevan Mission promises a 55-litre per capita per day for each rural household and BIS10500 quality of water

BMC to set up desalination plant to solve Mumbai's water woes

BMC will set up a desalination plant with 200 MLD capacity per day to overcome water shortage in Mumbai

How did water originate on Earth? Data from asteroid Ryugu deepen mystery

Asteroid Ryugu was chosen for sending and returning a mission as it "belonged to a class of asteroids that are dark in colour and suspected to have water-bearing minerals"

Govt to measure depth of Himalayan glaciers to assess water availability

The project is set to start next summer, sometime in June-July

Abundance, price, weight: Here's why water won't make it as major commodity

The reason ultimately comes down to abundance, price and weight. The commodities that are most important to financial markets have several common characteristics

Centre starts work on Jal Jeevan Mission to provide water to J-K household

The Centre has started work on the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) which aims to provide water supply to every household in Jammu and Kashmir by December 2021

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

Why Waste: An initiative showing people the brighter side of saving water

All of 23, this Bengaluru student runs an initiative, Why Waste, to change the mindset of people towards water conservation, writes Swarnami Mondal

Will ensure 24-hour water supply in next five years, says Delhi CM Kejriwal

In Delhi, in 70 years, only 58% of the households had access to water

Delhi water row gets murkier: Kejriwal accuses Paswan of spreading lies

Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari shot off a letter to Kejriwal, claiming that people were 'deeply scared' and 'terrified' of drinking the 'poisonous' water being supplied in the city

Mumbai only metro where tap water is safe for drinking: Govt report

In the first phase, the BIS had found all the 11 samples drawn from Delhi did not comply with the quality norm and the piped water was not safe for drinking purpose

Parched India will see 'water refugees' in future, says Rajendra Singh

A lot of time has been lost, but it's still possible to overcome the crisis, Singh said

Shakuntala Devi's pumpkin saga

We don't necessarily need only large scale, expensive measures to address our water woes, says the author

Put a price on water

The government should take up the issue of interlinking of rivers

This Delhi Colony is first to get portable tap water all day

Jal Board supplies drinking water to residential, commercial areas through taps for select hours

Make water a driver of cooperation: India to international communities

Noting that possibility of future water-related conflicts, India has said world should aim to make water a 'driver of cooperation'

Parthasarathi Shome: Water wars: Yesterday, today and tomorrow

History shows that if wars over economic issues are not contained, they can escalate into ethnic conflicts. India should be wary

Drinking water may help you curb appetite

It can alter messages from the stomach which can be interpreted as fullness by the brain