Cape Town and Chennai in recent years endured punishing droughts. Similar conditions afflicted Bengaluru and Hyderabad last year. Now Tehran is facing the same emergency.
Apart from reporting on water stress in India, global media also predicts a digital payments boom in the country, with WhatsApp given free run by National Payments Corporation of India.
From 1900 to 2024, annual water use rose by around 3,500 billion m3 globally – about the same as adding the requirement of an Olympic-sized pool every 2.79 seconds.
The government was responding to a question on the measures implemented in response to a WWF report that flagged 30 cities in India that will face water scarcity by 2050.
11 of 15 major river basins in India to experience water stress by 2025. India’s major power grids depend on 14 major river basins, all of which are under ‘high water stress’.
A team of international researchers reported that some of the world's most important freshwater sources lost water at a cumulative rate of around 22 gigatonnes per year for nearly three decades.
Villagers say supplies run short from March to May every year, when temperatures can run as high as 40 degrees C (104°F), before monsoon rains bring respite in June.
Global warming has been leading to melting glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Range, where Ladakh’s located. This has caused a water crisis in the region.
Coro India NGO & 24 local organisations, with help from state govt & support of 90 local women, were able to make 6 villages in Maan, drought-free & increase water levels by 14-15 feet.
At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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