-The Indian Express The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) on Thursday transferred two officials in charge of the NCERT campus, a week after contaminated water was blamed for the death of two persons. Several others had to be hospitalised. While the CPWD admitted to being at fault partially, sources in the organisation maintained that the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) was to blamed as well. According to the CPWD, an assistant engineer and...
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How Delhiites gave up their right to safe tap water -Shivani Singh
-The Hindustan Times Not very long ago, most Delhi residents drank water directly from the tap. The government utility supplied water twice a day. Some was stored in kitchen containers for drinking and cooking. The rest went to the overhead tanks to be used for bathing and washing. It was not that the municipal supply was very reliable. There were days in the summer when one had to go without water....
More »Water contamination deaths: First alarm was two months ago, no one responded -Shalini Narayan
-The Indian Express New Delhi: For two months, residents of NCERT Colony kept approaching authorities with complaints of contaminated water, but no action was taken. The authorities took notice only after two residents died and 70 fell ill. On Sunday, four-year-old Sanjana was declared dead at Safdarjung Hospital. Since then, several residents have fallen ill. The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) are, meanwhile, blaming each other for the contaminated water. Residents claimed...
More »Home to Facebook and Google, Hyderabad has no answer on tackling toilet waste -Rahul Devulapalli
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: Home to Asia's first office of Facebook and Google's first in India, these companies have put Hyderabad right on top of the global map by providing zillions of solutions worldwide from the city, but when it comes to their own toilet waste, they apparently have no clue where it is heading. With very few sewerage treatment plants (STP) working properly, waste flowing from the toilets of hundreds...
More »Award Spotlights Indian Women Helping Women-Stella Paul
-IPS News ROME: Jassiben, a self-employed potter from Nana Shahpur village in western India, loves summer despite the heat waves and frequent power cuts, because summer days always mean great business. "Poor people like us do not have refrigerators, so they store drinking water in the earthen pots that keep the water cool," says Jassiben, who uses only one name. "This year, the demand has been so high, I am selling at least...
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