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Environment

Source water locally, ban borewells, to prevent scarcity

April 23, 2019 Sandeep Anirudhan

The reason for Bengaluru’s water scarcity is our disconnect with the source of water. To reverse this, each ward should be made to generate water locally, and Cauvery water be taxed heavily, opines the author

Environment

Centre banned commercial borewells in city, state overturned it quietly

May 16, 2013 Navya P K

The central government’s ground water authority had issued a major order in November 2012, banning digging of commercial borewells. When the baton passed to the state authority this April, everything broke.

Environment

How BWSSB is hoodwinking the people of Bengaluru

March 21, 2013 News Desk

What the BWSSB is doing is tokenism, piece-meal, ad-hoc and on “pilot” basis, says former top bureaucrat.

Infrastructure

No new year in Bengaluru’s water starved slums

December 30, 2012 Navya P K

New Years may come and go, but for Aisha and her lot in Ejipura’s slum near Koramangala in south Bangalore, getting water is an ordeal each day. In a world where jobs matter for everything, she had to leave hers.

Infrastructure

Bengaluru’s stark water shortage can get worse: new study

November 7, 2012 Samuel Jacob

As if persistent warning bells were not enough, in a new study, city based geologists are showing that the region’s groundwater table may be sucked dry soon, and over 2.4 million citizens may be stranded.

Environment

RWH pits likely to fail

May 27, 2012 Madhu Sudhan

In the early 80s, the city had abundant ground water available just a few feet below the ground. Today, borewells even below 600 feet are a failure.

Governance

Borewell drillers’ tragic death leaves unanswered questions

July 19, 2010 Chetan Boray

One month after the shocking death of a borewell worker, no one in BBMP or BWSSB seems to be in position to give a clear picture of what went wrong.

Governance

Groundwater turns into gold, government drilling deep

May 4, 2010 Vaishnavi Vittal

Panic seems to have hit the administration, with everyone from the state government to the BWSSB to the corporators getting onto a borewell-drilling spree.


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