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To facilitate the repairs, the water pumping station serving Cauvery IV Stage, Phase II, will be shut down. | Photo Credit: File photo The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has said there will be a disruption in water supply in western parts of the city on August 28 due to emergency work to…
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Health workers conduct door-to-door surveys as the Health Department intensifies surveillance and preventive measures following a rise in diarrhoea cases in Giripuram of Vijayawada on Monday. | Photo Credit: G.N. RAO The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) officials announced on Monday (July 20, 2026) that no new cases of diarrhoea were reported in Giripuram, Vijayawada, on…
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The hot winds sweeping across the ancient Kallanai, which should be brimming with water by now, are raising temperatures across the Cauvery delta this year. A weak southwest monsoon and the vexed inter-State river water sharing dispute with Karnataka have left farmers in the region in distress yet again. As the Stanley Reservoir at Mettur…
Residents continue to manually carry water to their homes. There is no water supply in the hand pumps installed in some homes, and even if there is water, it is of poor quality, they say. Over 50 years ago, Lakshmi used to walk from Thiru. Vi.Ka. Nagar to Pulianthope near Basin Bridge, carrying large brass…
CM Rekha Gupta handing a power connection notice to a resident in the presence of North East Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari. | Photo Credit: ANI The Hindu Bureau New Delhi The Delhi government has approved projects worth over ₹1,000 crore to strengthen water management, sewage treatment and water supply systems under its Mission Yamuna initiative, the…
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Polavaram irrigation project receives huge inflow of flood water in West Godavari district | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT On September 7, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to solve the long-pending Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal issue between Punjab and Haryana, saying, “It’s the duty of the Centre…
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Comets may have been responsible for the presence of water on Earth, scientists have claimed, according to a new research published this week in Science Advances. The researchers focused on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and discovered that the molecular structure of water found on the celestial body closely resembled that of Earth’s oceans. While water existed in…
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Neat rows of vegetable and fruit plants in a portion of the 4.50-hectare agricultural land, a 3.3-KV solar power panel running pumps and other electrical appliances, slim polyethylene hoses for drip irrigation, and uniformly spaced trees form part of some innovative practices adopted by farmer Bhanwar Lal Meel at Lalasi village in Rajasthan’s Sikar district….
Chandrayaan-1 played a crucial role in the discovery of water molecules on the Moon New Delhi: Scientists analysing the remote sensing data from India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission have found that high energy electrons from the Earth may be forming water on the Moon. The team led by researchers from the University of Hawai’i (UH) at…
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