Mumbai's lake water levels have dropped by 2.21% in six days due to rising heat and increased evaporation. While officials ...

Heat is putting pressure on Mumbai’s drinking water supply; lake water evaporation has risen compared to past 2 years; lake ...

Bhatsa, Vihar and Tulsi lakes constitute the Bhatsa system or the Mumbai 2 line. After purification at the Panjarpur Water ...

Speaking to The Indian Express, a senior official from the hydraulic department said, “In our letter to the state government, we have appealed for allocation of 68,000 million litres of water from the ...

The cost of the dam will be ₹ 15,000 crore to ₹ 20,000 crore. As against this, the desalination project would have cost ₹ 1,500 crore for 450 MLD of water.” ...

As a precautionary measure, the BMC has requested a reserve stock from the state government, including 68,000 million litres (ML) from Upper Vaitarna and 1.13 ML from Bhatsa lakes, to be used if ...

The Staff Appraisal Report prepared by the World Bank to justify Phase II of BWSSP focuses on getting an extra 455 million litres per day (MLD) water for Mumbai from the Bhatsa dam. While planning for ...

Half of sewage from cities and towns is dumped into Maharashtra's rivers without treatment. The state's environment minister, Pankaja Munde, announced plans for sewage treatment plants and a task ...

The Army Corps’ Risk Management Center was set up to make the agency more efficient and better-equipped to prevent dam and levee failures. An engineering center that employs some of the most ...

The three states say new rules should include fixing infrastructure problems at Glen Canyon Dam, a key cog in the water-delivery system. Representatives of California, Arizona and Nevada are ...

Gupta narrating a chapter about the history of water in one of her previous walks to participants | By special arrangement Today, Mumbai gets its water from Vaitarna, Tulsi, Bhatsa, Tansa, and Modak ...