Water for Industry
Climate Change/Environment
Water Bodies/Rivers
- Fight to preserve India's natural resources: Two hours outside of Mumbai, farmers and tribals are fighting to stop their natural water supply from being diverted
- Integrated solid waste management facility proposed at Kuthambakkam, Chennai poses a threat to groundwater and the Chembarambakkam lake, one of the four reservoirs supplying drinking water to the city
- Central Pollution and Control Board (CPCB) closes 4 industrial units to prevent pollution of Ganga because of discharge of effluents directly into the river
- Gangetic dolphin most endangered species, pollution in the river Ganga to be blamed
- Renuka dam project in Himachal Pradesh to meet Delhi’s water woes scrapped by the Environment Ministry
- Jairam Ramesh asks for moratorium on hydro projects in Arunachal Pradesh
- Citizens in Bangalore take lead to rejuvenate the Parappana Agrahara Lake, which is choking with plastic and hyacinth
- Water scarcity around biggest city lake, the Bellandur lake, in Bangalore
- 680 families to be displaced for Brutang irrigation project in Orissa
- Govt to move SC to revive Kudremukh
- Himachal Pradesh: Centre ignores state’s plea on restricting mining area
- Illegal sand mining rampant on banks of Cauvery, Kapila rivers in Karnataka state
Urban Water/Drinking Water/Water Quality
- Water-borne diseases on the rise in East Godavari
- Malaria cases cross 20000 mark in Rajasthan: Heavy rains to blame
- Chandigarh: Malaria grips Fatehabad district, over 600 cases reported
- Several tribals ill due to high fluoride exposure in Bastar, Chattisgarh
- Over 4,000 fall prey to cancer in Punjab annually: Contaminated drinking water the primary cause
- Access to clean water is not just a problem of the developing world
- Slaying pollution demon to greet the goddess: Jharkhand goes eco-friendly with jute & wood to prevent pollution of water bodies
- Government hospitals in Bangalore check water wastage after four decades
- Water, water, only to swim: Bengal’s driest district, gets pool ‘gift’ from local body
- Kolkata: At a time when the state is reeling under acute water scarcity, the government is yet to formulate a water policy, even after eight years since the National Water Policy came into being
Groundwater
- Deep waters, slowly drying up: Depletion of aquifers is a looming tragedy. New agreements offer hope
Wastewater/Sanitation
- Survey of drainage systems and disposal of solid waste in the cities finds Hyderabad, and its second largest city, Visakhapatnam very poor in sanitation, while Chandigarh cleanest
- Mumbai: We’re crucial to environment, ragpicker tells world
Floods/Rainfall
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