To provide clean drinking water to people at public places in cities, Haryana government intends to provide water ATM at every 400 meters in the urban areas of the state. A proposal to this effect has been approved by the Chief Minister (CM), Manohar Lal Khattar, the urban local bodies minister, Kavita Jain, said on …
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April 9, 2018Erratic and non-supply of drinking water to residents of the port town here has caused a crisis with residents alleging that over the last 20 days the concerned authorities have been taking the plea of ‘ongoing maintenance work’. With every passing day, drinking water scarcity is more acute in, the thickly populated residential colonies in …
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March 27, 2018Piramal Sarvajal, the philanthropic arm of Piramal Group organised a two day ‘Safe Drinking Water’ awareness drive here to coincide with the World Water Day. Bhubaneswar currently has a network of four stateof- the-art Water Purifications Units (Hubs) and 40 Solar Powered – Cloud Connected water dispensing units (Spokes / Water ATMs), installed by Piramal …
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March 23, 2018The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) continues its food safety drive against unlicensed water packages which are allegedly responsible for the diarrhoea outbreak in the city. The civic body has seized dozens of packaged water containers sold by unlicensed vendors across the city which includes names of renowned brands. The civic body health officials along with …
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February 23, 2018Several people have fallen ill with diarrhoea in atleast three wards under the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) allegedly due to consumption of contaminated drinking water. The civic body has sent sample of the water for examination while the affected have been admitted to the hospital. In three wards under KMC-101, 102 and 103- several people …
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February 11, 2018The state cabinet cleared a proposed package of five pipe water supply projects in villages of Nuapada district affected by high fluoride content in water. The project worth Rs 370 crore is to be executed by M/s Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Chennai. It also approved a dairy and milk production plant by NDDB. Occurrence of …
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February 10, 2018Primary school children, who often struggle to carry the school bags properly, were made to draw and carry water for mid-day meal in a government-run primary school in Kendrapara district. School children in government-run Netaji upper primary school in Kumarpada village under Mangalpur gram panchayat of Mahakalpada block trek around half-a-kilometre to draw bucketfuls of …
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February 7, 2018The Gujarat government on Monday assured that there won’t be any shortage of drinking water in the state this summer due to the Narmada crisis as the state is mostly dependent on the river for their water needs. “The monsoons in upper catchment regions of Madhya Pradesh had been poor resulting in the lowered inflow …
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January 23, 2018While low amounts of fluoride are beneficial for healthy teeth, high levels of fluoride can weaken bones, leading to skeletal fluorosis.
November 14, 2017Sanitation and cleanliness are widely discussed today. However these ideas developed very early in India. That sanitation was a major part of the lives of the people in ancient India is revealed by excavations at Harappa (Punjab) and Mohenjodaro (Sind), the first sites discovered in the valley of the Indus and its tributaries and hence …
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November 5, 2017To provide purified drinking water enriched with necessary minerals to students studying in government schools in Haryana, the state government on Tuesday has decided to install Reverse Osmosis (RO) systems in all government schools of the state. Initially, this facility would be made available in urban schools from 2018, and later, it would be extended …
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July 4, 2017Karnataka on Friday said there is no question of releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu in line with the Supreme Court's directive as the state itself is facing a shortage of drinking water. "There is no water for drinking purposes. If we had water we could have released. We have 3-4 tmc ft shortage to …
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March 24, 2017