Water Shortage In Maharashtra

Several villages in coastal Raigad district of Maharashtra are currently reeling under acute water shortage and the local administration has started taking various relief measures like providing water through tankers and digging wells.

Amid the scorching summer heat, several villages in Maharashtra's Melghat belt here are facing acute water shortage, forcing residents to step down into deep wells and walk long distances in the hilly terrain barefoot to fetch just a potful of water.

Every resident of Mumbai including those living in slums or buildings without Occupation Certificate (OC) will have access to drinking water from May 1, Maharashtra Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray said on Tuesday.

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa requested his Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray to release six thousand million cubic feet (TMC) water from his state's reservoirs to rivers in Karnataka to meet acute drinking water shortage in North Karnataka.

As many as six out of nine major dams that supply water to urban and rural areas in Maharashtra's drought-prone Marathwada region continue to face shortage, the data released by the irrigation department stated on Friday.

In the drought-hit Beed district of Maharashtra, cases of water-related diseases have gone up in the last couple of months. Amid water shortage, people here say they are forced to drink contaminated water.

In the parched region of Marathwada in Maharashtra, the use of tankers - usually meant to be the last resort amid water shortage - is on a rise.

Thane: Waghivali village in Thane, 80 km from Mumbai, is facing acute water shortage owing to the heat spell. At the only well in the village that has some water left, women spend hours in the scorching heat to fill their pots of water. In 2015, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had launched the Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan in a bid to make th...

Gulf carrier Etihad Airways' jumbo Airbus A380 will be not be accorded the traditional water canon salute when it makes its debut landing in India at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on May 1 due to severe drought and massive water shortage in several parts of Maharashtra.

A petition has been filed in Kanpur over Gujarat Lions' two Indian Premier League matches in the city, despite water shortage

Union Minister Uma Bharti today strongly defended charges that the Centre reacted late to India's drought crisis. She said it is perhaps for the first time in history that water trains have been sent to combat drought.

Faced with acute water shortage, Aurangabad authorities in parched Marathwada region on Saturday announced 10 per cent cuts for the industrial units and 20 per cent for breweries and distilleries in the area, hours after Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray demanded stoppage of supply.

In view of severe water shortage in Mumbai's adjoining Thane, the district administration here has set up a round-the-clock control room and launched a toll free number to receive complaints against misuse or commercialisation of water.

Dia Mirza apologised after her tweet requesting people to celebrate dry Holi in wake of water shortage in Maharashtra invited backlash from different sections. "It has never been my intention to hurt the sentiments of any individual or community. If in the event that my tweet has done so, I apologize unequivocally"

A BJP legislator in Mumbai has written to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Commissioner (BMC) seeking a ban on "rain dance" functions in the metro during the festival of Holi.

Several villages in coastal Raigad district of Maharashtra are currently reeling under acute water shortage and the local administration has started taking various relief measures like providing water through tankers and digging wells.

Amid the scorching summer heat, several villages in Maharashtra's Melghat belt here are facing acute water shortage, forcing residents to step down into deep wells and walk long distances in the hilly terrain barefoot to fetch just a potful of water.

Every resident of Mumbai including those living in slums or buildings without Occupation Certificate (OC) will have access to drinking water from May 1, Maharashtra Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray said on Tuesday.

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa requested his Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray to release six thousand million cubic feet (TMC) water from his state's reservoirs to rivers in Karnataka to meet acute drinking water shortage in North Karnataka.

As many as six out of nine major dams that supply water to urban and rural areas in Maharashtra's drought-prone Marathwada region continue to face shortage, the data released by the irrigation department stated on Friday.

In the drought-hit Beed district of Maharashtra, cases of water-related diseases have gone up in the last couple of months. Amid water shortage, people here say they are forced to drink contaminated water.

In the parched region of Marathwada in Maharashtra, the use of tankers - usually meant to be the last resort amid water shortage - is on a rise.

Thane: Waghivali village in Thane, 80 km from Mumbai, is facing acute water shortage owing to the heat spell. At the only well in the village that has some water left, women spend hours in the scorching heat to fill their pots of water. In 2015, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had launched the Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan in a bid to make th...

Gulf carrier Etihad Airways' jumbo Airbus A380 will be not be accorded the traditional water canon salute when it makes its debut landing in India at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on May 1 due to severe drought and massive water shortage in several parts of Maharashtra.

A petition has been filed in Kanpur over Gujarat Lions' two Indian Premier League matches in the city, despite water shortage

Union Minister Uma Bharti today strongly defended charges that the Centre reacted late to India's drought crisis. She said it is perhaps for the first time in history that water trains have been sent to combat drought.

Faced with acute water shortage, Aurangabad authorities in parched Marathwada region on Saturday announced 10 per cent cuts for the industrial units and 20 per cent for breweries and distilleries in the area, hours after Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray demanded stoppage of supply.

In view of severe water shortage in Mumbai's adjoining Thane, the district administration here has set up a round-the-clock control room and launched a toll free number to receive complaints against misuse or commercialisation of water.

Dia Mirza apologised after her tweet requesting people to celebrate dry Holi in wake of water shortage in Maharashtra invited backlash from different sections. "It has never been my intention to hurt the sentiments of any individual or community. If in the event that my tweet has done so, I apologize unequivocally"

A BJP legislator in Mumbai has written to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Commissioner (BMC) seeking a ban on "rain dance" functions in the metro during the festival of Holi.