water supply
- Bangalore
Bengaluru Water Board says robotics helped avoid digging at 399 spots
Bengaluru: As part of its push towards advanced urban infrastructure management, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has successfully continued the use of robotic technology to identify pipeline and underground…
- Hyderabad
GHMC joins hands with IIT Kharagpur, AIIMS for water quality monitoring
Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Thursday, May 14, announced that it has signed an MoU with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and the All India Institute of…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad Water Board seizes 18 illegal motors from Kukatpally
Hyderabad: As many as 18 illegal motors used to draw extra water from the pipelines were seized by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) during a special drive in…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad water board seizes 22 illegally attached motors in Kondapur
Hyderabad: Officials of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board’s (HMWSSB) Vigilance Department seized 22 motors illegally attached to water pipelines in the Anand Nagar Colony and Prashanth Nagar areas of Kondapur…
- Hyderabad
Barcodes, CCTV, two-shift deliveries: How HMWSSB is managing tanker deliveries
Hyderabad: With summer demand for drinking water rising sharply across the city, Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) Managing Director Ashok Reddy on Thursday, April 23, inspected multiple tanker filling stations,…
- Hyderabad
Unseasonal rain, power cuts, disrupt water supply in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Power cuts caused by unseasonal rains are causing disruptions in water supply to many areas in the city, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) said on Monday, April 20.…
- Hyderabad
Crackdown on drinking water misuse in Hyderabad as summer demand rises
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) is going to start a special drive from Monday, April 20, to control drinking water wastage over the next 45 days as…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad flips the script: Gated societies to sell waste water back to HMWSSB
Hyderabad: In a reversal of the existing arrangement where residents buy water from the city’s utility, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) has decided to procure treated wastewater from gated…
- Telangana
No central funds for Mission Bhagiratha, which inspired Modi’s Jal Jeevan Mission
Hyderabad: Telangana is yet to receive any assistance for Mission Bhagiratha, the Centre informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday, March 16. Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil was responding to a question…
- Hyderabad
Telangana govt allots 3.95 acre in Neopolis for water infrastructure
Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Saturday, February 28, allotted 3.95 acre of land in the Khanpur campus area of Neopolis, Kokapet, to the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) to…
- Health
Indore in the making? Secunderabad families struggle with contaminated water
Hyderabad: Every morning at 4 am, water runs in the taps of Shahbazguda in Secunderabad’s Warsiguda. By the time most families wake up, the water that was meant for drinking, cooking and…
- India
Water, electricity cut off in Dalit settlement of Odisha village
Bolangir: Water and electricity services were cut off in a Dalit settlement, with residents alleging caste-based discrimination in Odisha’s Balangir district. However, a village official attributed the disruption to a local feud.…
- News
After water contamination tragedy, MP CM orders safe supply for all
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav said urban local bodies must ensure safe drinking water and directed officials to prevent contamination. Yadav’s directive came after seven persons died in Indore’s Bhagirathpura area…
- Featured News
When medicine and water can take lives: A system without accountability in MP
Madhya Pradesh is facing a harsh reality these days. Even the most basic needs of common people are not safe anymore. Maroof Ahmed Khan, a Bhopal-based social activist and writer, in a…
- Hyderabad
HMWSSB books 19 people for illegal drain connections in SR Nagar
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) on Tuesday, January 6, registered criminal cases against 19 residents of SR Nagar for illegally tapping into the city’s drain network. Acting…
