Chennai water crisis News
In many countries of Europe including Spain, Germany, there is severe drought at this time. It is also being said that Europe is heading towards its worst drought in 500 years. Many states of America are also in the grip of severe drought at this time. Leave the imagination of life without water, even the earth cannot be imagined.
People are risking their lives wandering from place to place in search of water in Amravati, Maharashtra. Water has to be brought from 2 km away. At the same time, people are getting diseases due to dirty water.
Even in this odd situation of struggle for water, it is the responsibility of women to bring water. Almost all the pictures that have come out in such cases are women. See how women get water after facing difficulties.
There are two types of people living in India, on the one hand those people who enjoy water and for other people water is a means of saving their life or staying alive. The question is why the responsibility of bringing water has been put on women only?
What we object to the most is that it is the responsibility of women to bring water even in this difficult situation. Almost all the pictures that have come out in cases like this are of women.
In this report, watch how women are struggling for water by landing in a dry well without caring for their lives for a bottle of water. The case is from Madhya Pradesh.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami had earlier announced mitigating Chennai's water woes by getting drinking water supplied from Jolarpettai with an allocation of Rs 65 crore.
The special 50 wagon train carrying water from Tamil Nadu's Vellore district will reach Chennai on Friday afternoon.
Water, no doubt, is one of the most precious gifts to the mankind. It is the most essential component of life and a vital for their sustenance. But today, sorrowfully, India is passing through a very tough situation in this regard. About half of India is facing even drinking water crisis with Chennai and Bengaluru and some other cities.
The rains may have provided temporary relief, but the city's water crisis is far from over.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami Thursday laid the foundation stone for a Rs 1,259 crore seawater desalination plant in neighbouring Kancheepuram district, making it the third such unit that would address the city's drinking water supply needs.
DMK's TR Baalu also gave notice in Lok Sabha over the prevailing water crisis in the state.
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Palaniswami asserted that 525 millions of litre (MLD) of water is being supplied by the Chennai Metro Water per day to the city and that Rs 158.42 crore has been sanctioned to the civic body to "take care of water scarcity in a war footing".
Poondi, Chembarambakkam, Sholavaram and Red Hills reservoirs in Chennai have dried up.
More than 12 IT companies have asked their employees to work from home for over next 3 months owing to acute water crisis.
Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) also known as Rajiv Gandhi Salai is Chennai’s IT capital with hundreds of large IT parks and tech firms dotting the stretch.
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