With taps running dry, Sindhanur residents face daily struggles for clean water. As the crisis deepens, calls for urgent action echo through the parched streets. In the arid heartland, the once richest district of Karnataka, Sindhanur, where the earth cracks like parched lips and the sun beats down relentlessly, lies a landscape stripped bare by […]
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Around 600 people in Yallalinga colony in Devadurga taluk struggle for basic needs: water, toilets and shelter. Anitha, a 15-year-old, walked the uphill concrete road to her home, barefoot, under the scorching sun. She carried two yellow plastic water pots – one on her head and the other on her hip. She was carrying water […]
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City infrastructure and public facilities should be designed to meet the needs of residents year-round, not just during specific seasons, say experts. Colourful umbrellas across the city. Streets lined with cut fruit and juice sellers. Making plans for long vacations. Summer season in Bengaluru is not just about this. Lack of bus shelters. No drinking […]
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Rusted pipelines and eroding water tankers, raise the risk of water-borne diseases. May 13, 2021 Sudeept Singh Khurda: The residents of Retang Colony, Jatni, are worried about the quality of water they are bound to use on a daily basis. “The supplied water contains bleaching powder and churns out muddy with high-iron density, which is […]
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People of Hakki-Pikki community await access to safe drinking water. Abhinav Kumar There is no supply of potable water to the Gowripura village that comes under Banniguppe Gram Panchayat in Ramnagar district . The Hakki-Pikki tribal community that resides in Gowripura, has been looking forward to the water purifying unit, that was constructed two years […]
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