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See video of this story here Prime Minister Narendra Modi, please pay attention to our situation. I would urge him to meet the public once. An elderly man’s appeal from Sonbhadra to PM Modi Sonbhadra district in UP was famous for 12,000 MW electric power generation. But now, it has become infamous for its contaminated […]

It is an unending wait for the residents of Rajupalem village for a permanent solution to the drinking water problem.   | Photo Credit: KommuriSrinivas One or two persons from every family suffer from fluorosis and are bedridden Rajupalem, a nondescript village in Prakasam district, shot into limelight when the then Andhra Pradesh Governor Kumudben […]

VADODARA: The check dam over Mahisagar River at Sindhrot has been helpful in providing freshwater to Barodians, but this same check dam has become a bane for 23 villages settled near Mini River due to the high level of salinity in it. Mini River, a narrow tributary, merges with Mahisagar downstream of the check dam. […]

Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has demanded NITI Aayog to release additional budget for Rajasthan to tide through scarcity of safe drinking water. She also repeated her demand of declaring Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP), a national project which envisaged to meet the water needs of 13 districts. Raje was addressing the 4th NITI Aayog Governing […]

NEW DELHI: Sangam Vihar, one of the biggest unauthorised colonies in the capital, is facing a major water crisis this summer. The scarcity of water is forcing many residents to use illegal borewells or a makeshift motor, often leading to disputes and even scuffles. On Thursday night, such a dispute killed a resident. When TOI […]

Ranchi: The cabinet on Tuesday approved Rs 103.69 crore for installation of solar-powered defluoridation plants, high-yield deep tube wells and water tanks, besides laying of pipelines, among other things. Over 323 hamlets spread over 15 water supply districts will be benefited by this project to provide fluoride-free drinking water under the National Rural Drinking Water […]

GURUGRAM: Environmental activists have suspected it for long, but now, they can place actual figures against their suspicion. The quality of Gurugram’s groundwater is deteriorating with each passing year, in what should be a major concern for public health, according to data for three financial years — 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 — submitted by the […]

PATNA: The public health and engineering department (PHED) has said all the 5,635 wards of the 896 panchayats, where drinking water has been found to be affected by arsenic or fluoride poisoning, will be freed from the contaminations by March 31 next year. State PHED minister Vinod Narayan Jha said the department has initiated the […]