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 World Resources Institute's Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas has ranked India 13 on its list of "extremely highly" water stressed countries, citing its population.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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