While more people get admitted to the Isolation Hospital with gastroenteritis and other water-borne diseases the civic agencies which can come to the city’s rescue are busy playing the blame game. The

With water crisis slowly taking on alarming proportions, substandard packaged drinking water, without proper labels and ISO certification and quality checks, are more freely available in the market, r

Book a mobile water tanker only if your underground sump is empty, as the tanker drivers are refusing to dump the leftover water into a friendly neighbour’s house. Citizens argued that when they pay f

The residents of Cheranalloor took out a protest march to the Kerala water authority (KWA) office on Friday demanding adequ-ate water supply to the area.

The march turned violent and protestors brok

The city corporation council has decided to seek government’s immediate intervention in resolving the issue of water scarcity in various parts of the city.

The council will exert pressure on state g

Deccan Chronicle checked with the government laboratories about their preparedness to check the pesticide level in water and found that none of them has taken this threat seriously.

The National Inst

Increasing use of pesticides and herbicides in agriculture is playing havoc with the farming community apart from resulting in increased levels of water contamination.

A recent epidemiological study

Periyar River may be the main source of drinking water for the city, but is it really safe to depend on it?
An Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (IST) study claims not, contending that it is

Officials of Chennai metro water would have their work cut out this summer. Several north Chennai pockets still remain vulnerable to supply deficiency.

Also, the 42 local bodies merged with Chennai

The mineral water that you have bought might not be as hygienic as claimed. For, there has been an increase in the number of typhoid, diarrhoea, cholera and gastritis cases even from the upper strata