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More than half of the country faces high water scarcity. Out of the 1.2 billion people living in the country, about 742 million live and farm in agricultural heartlands.

Reservoirs left with less than 15 per cent water

Officials have attributed the water scarcity in the reservoirs to inadequate rainfall in 2018.

19 Jun 2019 3:18 AM IST

Meenakshi Lekhi

BJP's Lekhi protests against water shortage, Delhi Jal Board calls it...

Lekhi claimed that women waste hours standing in queues to collect water from tankers and ugly fights take place.

11 Jun 2019 4:57 PM IST

More than half of the country faces high water scarcity. Out of the 1.2 billion people living in the country, about 742 million live and farm in agricultural heartlands.

Water scarcity in Madhya Pradesh causes mass migration

All water sources such as hand pumps and ponds in their localities have dried up due to intense heatwave conditions.

10 Jun 2019 4:19 AM IST

The bodies were decomposing; we have to take all precautions. We have burnt few carcasses, said District Forest Official, PN Mishra. (Photo: ANI)

Heatstroke kills 15 monkeys, water scarcity in MP forest

Forest officials have even admitted burning the decomposing carcasses of some monkeys fearing that they might have died...

8 Jun 2019 11:28 AM IST

Last year in November, the Odisha government had declared drought of moderate and severe nature in 19 districts of the state. The calamity covers a total crop area of 2.33 lakh hectares covering 5,533 villages of 66 blocks in nine districts namely - Nabarangpur, Bargarh, Balangir, Deogarh, Jharsuguda, Kalahandi, Nuapara, Sambalpur and Sundergarh. (Photo: ANI)

Mayurbhanj faces scarcity of clean drinking water

One villager said, Sometimes we see insects in the water we collect. We want govt to give us tubewells so that we get...

2 Jun 2019 1:11 PM IST

The temperature has stayed above the 40-degree mark in most parts of Haryana for days. (Representational Image/AFP)

Haryana orders supply of water to parched areas through tankers

The order was given last evening by Haryana's Public Health Engineering Minister Banwari Lal at a departmental meeting.

23 May 2018 4:21 PM IST

Villagers dig out water almost blackened water on a daily basis. (Photo: ANI)

Chattisgarh: Villagers compelled to drink drain water in Dantewada

Villagers of Dantewada are forced to dig out water from a drain and consume contaminated water every day.

22 May 2018 3:06 PM IST

Due to acute shortage of water, there have been cases of water theft at night a couple of times. So, we have decided to put locks in our drums to save our share of water, a local said. (Photo: ANI)

Locals lock water drums in Rajasthan village to avoid robbery

The locals of Parasrampura village get drinking water once in a week from Hindustan Zinc Limited.

31 May 2018 10:30 AM IST

Amit Manchanda, another resident, said that this is not the first time that these areas have received such poor quality water. (Representational image)

Pakistan at risk of water scarcity

Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource in Pak: UNDP

9 Dec 2018 3:56 AM IST

Many of those lakes in Bengaluru that remain are heavily polluted. (Photo: AFP)

India's Silicon Valley faces man-made water crisis

Many lakes have now been concreted over to build apartment blocks.

17 March 2018 9:53 AM IST

More than half of the country faces high water scarcity. Out of the 1.2 billion people living in the country, about 742 million live and farm in agricultural heartlands.

Water-stressed India stares at harder crisis

India's rivers are drying and are symptomatic of the dire state of water crisis.

4 Jun 2018 12:43 AM IST

Even elderly women climb down pits using makeshift bamboo ladders and dig arduously for hours using pickaxe and shovel, removing mud and clay in search of water sources in Pookkottukavu, a village panchayat. (Representational image)

Women dig wells in village to fight water scarcity

Women climb down pits using makeshift bamboo ladders and dig arduously for hours using pickaxe and shovel, mud and clay...

10 July 2017 5:13 AM IST