Drinking water supply by Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board will be disrupted in parts of the city on Sunday. The disruption, officials said, is in view of the damage to the 33-inch diameter water supply feeder main to Red Hills reservoir from Asif Nagar filter beds. The affected areas include Red Hills, … Read more
How many of us know that out of the total volume of water on Earth, 97.5% is salt water and only 2.5% is fresh water. Of the freshwater, only 0.3% is in liquid form on the surface. Nearly 3x of the volume on the surface lies under it and is referred to as “ground water”. … Read more
NEW DELHI: Flash floods in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli have increased turbidity of raw water fetched by Delhi from Upper Ganga Canal to “unprecedented levels” which is likely to hit water supply in many parts of the national capital, DJB vice chairman Raghav Chadha said on Sunday. In a series of tweets, Chadha said the Sonia Vihar … Read more