Surat has been selling treated water to manufacturing industries while Bengaluru reuses 50 per cent of its treated water. Can’t other Indian cities follow suit?
For past year, Coimbatore civic body has been providing 24x7 potable water supply in some parts of city. UP govt has taken up 1st such project in Ayodhya in phased manner this year.
Chennai is an example of what can go wrong when industrialisation and extreme weather converge and a metropolis paves over its flood plain to satisfy demand for new homes & factories.
The policy has recommended diversifying the crop procurement process. Union Jal Shakti ministry is currently going through the draft policy submitted by a 11-member committee last month.
The WWF also names 28 other Indian cities, including Kolkata, Mumbai, Lucknow, Chandigarh and Bhopal, that will face an ‘increasing water risk in the next few decades’.
India is one of the 17 countries facing severe water stress. As the World Water Week comes to an end, this is what the state of climate financing looks like.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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