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Tamil Nadu: Flood warning issued to five districts as water-level rises in
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Dec 4 (ANI): Madurai district collector on Tuesday issued a flood warning to five Southern districts on downstream Vaigai dam as the water-level reached 66 feet, following heavy rainfall in the region.
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J-K: Lt Governor calls to conserve water
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Nov 30 (ANI): Expressing concern over the water crisis in the Union Territory, the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday said that people should learn how to conserve water.
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Karnataka: Fishermen struggling as waste disposal destroys aquatic life
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Shimoga (Karnataka) [India], Nov 28 (ANI): The fishermen in Shimoga city are struggling to survive as the water of the Tunga river has been contaminated following excessive disposal of waste and discharge of untreated sewage into the water body resulting in the extinction of most of the aqua
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I demand joint team of BIS, DJB to test Delhi's water quality: Paswan writ
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 26 (ANI): Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday wrote to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, over the constitution of a joint team of officials from Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and Delhi Jal Board (DJB), to test the water quality in Delhi.
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PM Modi lauds scuba divers for cleaning plastic waste from deep sea
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 24 (ANI): In the 59th edition of his monthly radio address 'Mann ki Baat' on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined the issue of plastic waste flooding the water bodies and narrated an example of how a large amount of such waste was cleaned by a group of motivat
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Agencies supplying drinking water must ensure quality: Consumer Affairs Mi
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 21 (ANI): The agencies engaged in the supply of water to households in the towns, cities, and villages spread across the country should ensure that the water being supplied is safe for drinking purpose, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs said on Thursday.
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Water crisis in Madurai affects crop cycles
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Nov 21 (ANI): The water crisis in Tamil Nadu's Madurai is leading to many problems as farmers are unable to manage their crop cycles due to unavailability of water in the ponds.
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Metal pollution poses new danger to corals in warming oceans: Study
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 20 (ANI): Agricultural runoff, especially the metal copper and marine plant leaching from boat hulls pose as an emerging threat to Coral Sea fans in the waters around Puerto Rico.
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Delhi Jal Board to collect 3,000 samples of water to check quality
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 20 (ANI): After 11 samples collected from Delhi failed on 19 parameters of quality, Delhi Jal Board is planning to collect over 3,000 samples of water from different areas in the national capital to ascertain whether the water is clean or dirty.
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Paswan forms team to re-examine water quality in Delhi, asks CM Kejriwal t
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 18 (ANI): After Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal raised questions over a report which stated that tap water in the national capital failed quality tests, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday constituted a team of two senior BIS officials and asked him to nomin
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China's aircraft carrier sets sails through Taiwan Strait
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Nov 18 (ANI): The Chinese Navy on Monday confirmed that the country's first domestically-built aircraft carrier sailed through the Taiwan Strait and is on its way to the South China Sea, in an apparent message just days after a US warship crossed the waterway last week.
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Delhi Pollution leads to formation of foam on river Yamuna
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 7 (ANI): Post Diwali, the national capital and its adjoining regions have been experiencing a severe pollution crisis. The situation has become so grave that not only the air, even the water bodies situated in Delhi such as the Yamuna river near Kalindi Kunj area have
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