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Delhi Jal Board Writes To BBMB Again To Defer Repair of Nangal Hydel Channel

Delhi may face a 25% cut in water supply...

A boy uses his mouth to pump out water from a municipal tanker to fill his containers in New Delhi, India.

Delhi Anticipates Water Scarcity as Govt Plans To Shut Nangal Hydel Channel

The Wire Staff 26/02/2021

Closing the Nangal Hydel Channel will leave Delhi with...

A man draws water from a water ATM in Jaipur. Photo: Nivedita Khandekar

Why Most Water ATMs Are Ultimately Not Sustainable

Nivedita Khandekar 01/05/2020

Except in the NDMC area at the national capital,...

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Centre to Ban RO Systems In Places Where Water Quality Meets BIS Norms

The Wire Staff 04/02/2020

The Union environment ministry issued a draft notification after...

Protest over the water crisis

NGT Directs Centre to Submit Report on Plea to Make Water Wastage a Penal Offence

A petition said 4,84,20,000 cubic metres of water are...

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Delhi Has Painted Itself Into a Corner Over Use of Palla Floodplain Aquifer

Rashme Sehgal 17/05/2019

Instead of using just as much water as would...

The untreated effluents, especially from textile dyeing units, that Drain Number 2 carries from Panipat to the Yamuna upstream of Delhi. Credit: Dilip Banerjee/thethirdpole.net.

Panipat Dyes Poison Delhi Waters

Juhi Chaudhary 24/05/2016

High levels of ammonia released by industrial plants in...