Dirty water being bottled for drinking
With water crisis slowly taking on alarming proportions, substandard packaged drinking water, without proper labels and ISO certification and quality checks, are more freely available in the market, r
Not a drop to drink
With temperatures soaring in Bengaluru, scores of people are falling ill with gastroenteritis and other water- borne diseases especially in slums and in localities that lie close to major storm water
Tanker sharing not allowed
Book a mobile water tanker only if your underground sump is empty, as the tanker drivers are refusing to dump the leftover water into a friendly neighbour’s house. Citizens argued that when they pay f
March for water turns violent
The residents of Cheranalloor took out a protest march to the Kerala water authority (KWA) office on Friday demanding adequ-ate water supply to the area.
The march turned violent and protestors brok
Speed up water projects, government told
The city corporation council has decided to seek government’s immediate intervention in resolving the issue of water scarcity in various parts of the city.
The council will exert pressure on state g
‘Safe’ tag for pesticide-filled water!
Deccan Chronicle checked with the government laboratories about their preparedness to check the pesticide level in water and found that none of them has taken this threat seriously.
The National Inst
Pesticides worsening water contamination
Increasing use of pesticides and herbicides in agriculture is playing havoc with the farming community apart from resulting in increased levels of water contamination.
A recent epidemiological study
A water bomb in Periyar
Periyar River may be the main source of drinking water for the city, but is it really safe to depend on it?
An Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (IST) study claims not, contending that it is
Bigger city, little water
Officials of Chennai metro water would have their work cut out this summer. Several north Chennai pockets still remain vulnerable to supply deficiency.
Also, the 42 local bodies merged with Chennai
Water-borne diseases make comeback
The mineral water that you have bought might not be as hygienic as claimed. For, there has been an increase in the number of typhoid, diarrhoea, cholera and gastritis cases even from the upper strata