Young women collect water from a pipe connected to a water body, owing to the absence of piped water supply in the area, at Thanwala village in Bhaderwah of Doda District.
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People, not following social distancing guidelnes, carry cans and other containers to collect drinking water from a tanker, during Unlock 4 in East Delhi.
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People, not following social distancing guidelnes, gather to collect drinking water from a tanker, during Unlock 4 in East Delhi.
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Women fill containers with water from a leaking water pipeline, during Unlock 3, in Jammu.
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Containers placed by locals on a road to reserve their spots to collect drinking water from tankers, during Unlock 3, in Kolkata.
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Residents of Chilla village place containers in queues to reserve their spot while waiting to collect water from a tanker of Delhi Jal Board, in New Delhi.
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A woman wearing a mask waits to collect drinking water from a tanker, at Mayur Vihar in New Delhi.
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People gather to collect drinking water from a tanker at Vivekanand Camp, without following social-distancing guidelines, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, at Chanakyapuri in N...
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Empty containers are seen outside home at Vivekand Camp, Chanakyapuri, in New Delhi.
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Residents collect water from a New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) tanker, Sanjay Camp, Chanakyapuri, in New Delhi.
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Residents collect water from a New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) tanker, Sanjay Camp, Chanakyapuri, in New Delhi.
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A man carries water on a bullock-cart at Jawhar village in Palghar district of Maharashtra. People in the region are facing water crisis as almost all wells are nearly dried due to...
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People collect water from a well at Jawhar village in Palghar district of Maharashtra.
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A village woman walks to fetch water from a well at Mokhada in Palghar district of Maharashtra. People in the region are facing water crisis as almost all wells are nearly dried du...
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A woman carries water collected from a well that was refilled by the authorities with the help of a water-tanker, at Nandgaon village in Thane district.
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Women fetch water from a well after it was refilled by the authorities with the help of a water-tanker at Nandgaon village in Thane district.
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Women carry water collected from a well that was refilled by the authorities with the help of a water-tanker, at Nandgaon village in Thane district. Almost all water sources in the...
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Villagers collect drinking water from a well at Bargi Durgapur village, some 28 km from Jabalpur.
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Villagers carry drinking water in containers after collecting from a well at Bargi Durgapur village, some 28 km from Jabalpur. The region is facing water shortage during summer sea...
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Village women carry drinking water to their homes, on the outskirts of Ajmer.
Fresh water is a renewable resource, yet the world's supply of groundwater is steadily decreasing, with depletion occurring most prominently in Asia, South America and North America.
Addressing a press conference here in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said 10.5 lakh people living in these colonies will be benefitted by this move.
In an order that has been implemented with immediate effect, Principal Secretary of the Vidhan Sabha Pradeep Dubey has said that half-filled glasses of water should be served in all offices and canteens.
Earlier, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami had announced the state government's plans to transport 10 million litres of water daily by rail from Jolarpettai to meet the needs of parched Chennai.
Rajnath Singh said the Home Ministry had taken notice of Kiran Bedi's remarks -- in which she blamed 'corrupt politics' of Tamil Nadu for the water crisis in Chennai.
In the first address in the second edition of monthly radio address 'Mann ki Baat', the prime minister also said 'one size fits all' approach is not required in water conservation.
DiCaprio's environmental activism stretches as far back as 1998 when he established the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness.
70- year-old Dharaitri Naik gained prominence, when he carved out a three-kilometre canal from the Gonasika mountains so that the water stream could irrigate the parched land below, in the wake of lack of water in his village, that caused a major trouble to him and to the people in his village.
Siddharth Agarwal, who walks along rivers across India, feels the common man is being left in the lurch as urban desires will not solve the core issues confronting the rivers of India
Rapidly dwindling water table is putting Haryana farmers in a dilemma. The government is discouraging harvesting water-intensive crops as agriculture alone consumes 80 per cent of groundwater.
Behavioural change, proper metering and river-linking are the solutions to water crisis in India, says Union water resources minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
Experts say Hyderabad needs to reduce its dependence on faraway sources like the Krishna and Godavari rivers, and augment supplies from the nearby reservoirs of Malanna Sagar and Konda Panchamma.
Himachal Pradesh has set up a dedicated utility, Shimla Jal Prabandhan Nigam, to deal with water supply and sewerage services, which was earlier handled by different agencies and departments.
The red light has been blinking and now the government has acknowledged that India is facing the worst water crisis in its history with about 60 crore people facing high to extreme water stress