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Pakistan: Karachi's water breakdown exposes governance failures
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Karachi is once again in the grip of an acute water crisis after repair activity on a major transmission line halted supplies to wide swathes of the city, a situation that has left residents angry and dependent on private tankers.
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Pak: Karachi residents protest at Sakhi Hasan hydrant over acute water cri
Updated : 4 months ago IST
Residents of Karachi's district Central protested at the Sakhi Hasan hydrant over severe water shortages. Dawn reported that repeated pumping station shutdowns caused major supply disruptions, though KWSC said power issues were resolved and normal water service had resumed.
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Village in MP's Chhatarpur faces woes, locals say 60 pc youth unmarried du
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
It is a remote village in Bundelkhand's Chhatarpur district which is facing an acute water crisis. Villagers have to trudge through a forest to reach a small and dirty 'jhiria' to fetch water and the crisis over the years has led to several unwelcome consequences for the locals with youth f
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River Rejuvenation: an Art of Living initiative to make India water positi
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 17: The looming water crisis calls for immediate attention and quick action. Around 54 per cent of the sub-continent is said to have turned into a water-stressed dust bowl with many rivers rapidly drying up. The situation has gradually reached an alarming
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Tribals in remote areas of West Bengal face acute water crisis
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The tribals of a small tribal village in an interior area of Jhargram district in West Bengal face an acute water crisis, but they said that there seems to be no solution in the near future
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Maharashtra: Nashik villages face acute water crisis, villagers fetch mudd
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Nashik (Maharashtra) [India], June 5 (ANI): Amid the scorching summer, a village in Nashik is facing a severe water crisis.
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Pakistan: 4 dead in Balochistan cholera outbreak
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 13 (ANI): Four people, including a toddler, have died in a cholera outbreak at Dera Bugti's Pirkoh Tehsil of Balochistan as Pakistan deals with an acute water crisis, including unavailability of clean drinking water.
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Sindh will not accept any cut in its water share amid acute crisis: Minist
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 7 (ANI): The ongoing shortage of irrigation water posed a grave threat to the agricultural economy of Sindh province.
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Sindh facing acute water crisis, asks Pak govt's help
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], May 5 (ANI): Noting the acute water shortage in Pakistan, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon has made an appeal to the federal government on Thursday to address the water crisis in Sindh and provide water to the province.
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Pakistan facing a staggering 52 pc water shortage
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 16 (ANI): Pakistan faces a staggering 52 per cent water shortage with the acute water crisis causing disruptions in even essential services like healthcare, local media reported on Tuesday.
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Pakistan: Balochistan facing drought-like situation
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], September 27 (ANI): Pakistan's green belt of Balochistan is facing a drought-like situation due to the unfair distribution of water from the Sindh province that even locals do not have water to drink and water their lands for their crops.
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Odisha's Mayurbhanj district witnessing water crisis, locals travel 2 km t
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Mayurbhanj (Odisha) [India], April 19 (ANI): Fourteen blocks in Baripada division of Odisha's Mayurbhanj district is witnessing acute water crisis as locals have to travel at least two kilometres to fetch drinking water.
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