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With the lockdown being in force for about six weeks now, dolphins have started to show up in stretches of River Ganga, where people had seen this beautiful specie three decades ago. News of…

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to change the National Green Tribunal order, which prohibited use of Reverse Osmosis (RO) filters in Delhi areas with Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) values…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's ranking in water resources management has slipped during the last financial year, according to a Niti Aayog report. The state was ranked 14th in composite water…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha capital is among several Indian cities that have failed to meet specifications for safe drinking water set by ‘Indian Standard (IS)-10500:2012’. According to a…

Sambalpur: In order to raise awareness on water conservation, a few young people have got together to organise a ‘Youth for Water’ campaign. Odisha's 'Water Man' Ranjan Panda took the…

Bhubaneswar: The sea water quality in Odisha's Paradip is 'poor' and Dhamra 'very poor', according to a report by the National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR) on the water quality index…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly Speaker Surya Narayan Patro on Monday asked 26 former MLAs to immediately vacate the government quarters. In a letter to the former MLAs, the Speaker said…

India is considered to be a water-stressed country. The situation is getting worse. The annual per capita availability of water in India was 6008 cubic metres when the country achieved…

Odisha has fallen four ranks from the ninth to the thirteenth in 2016-17 in the composite water management index (CWMI) released by Niti Aayog. The report ranks states on 28 different…

Mumbai: India has embarked on a mission to stop the flow of excess water into Pakistan, Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. The minister, however, clarified that India was…