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

As the mercury soars and district faces acute drinking water scarcity, the district administration is planning to launch “Rev-erse Osmosis project” to mitigate the water woes.

According to Ernaku-la

The coldest deep ocean water that flows around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean has been strangely disappearing at a high rate for the past few decades, a new study has revealed.

This mass of water i

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has written to her Andhra Pradesh counterpart N. Kiran Kumar Reddy seeking release of four tmcft of water from Kandaleru reservoir due for the months of Janua

A fight between two women over water took an ugly turn after one of them poured kerosene on the other and set her on fire, killing her, police said on Saturday.

The incident took place in Dhule distr

The next world war could be over drinking water.

Drought, floods and a lack of fresh water may cause significant global instability and conflict in the coming decades, as developing countries scramb

Noting that large parts of the country have become 'water stressed', the government has warned of potential 'social unrest' due to its 'skewed' availability in different regions.

The draft of t