Shanmugan lifts his veshti and gingerly places his foot on the ground, only to withdraw it and step in a different direction. “It’s stronger over here,” he says more confidently, guided by a chain ...

After extending the deadline for borewell registration drive three times, the Bangalore Water and Sewerage Supply Board had finally closed registrations on July 31. But going by the compiled data, the ...

The Yavatmal Zilla Parishad has cancelled the process of giving contract to the private agencies for digging borewells at its schools and anganwadis. YAVATMAL: The Yavatmal Zilla Parishad has ...

One can now assess the water level in a borewell by just tapping on the metal cap. Pune-based Waterlab Solutions has developed an app which helps measure the water level in the borewell within ...

The BMRCL plans to come out with a rule barring digging of borewells within a 35-metre radius of any underground metro alignment; NOC from BMRCL a must before digging Planning to dig a borewell? Hold ...

Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) officials are brazenly violating the Andhra Pradesh Water, Trees and Land Act (Walta), which is meant to stop indiscriminate sinking of borewells, by permitting ...

A consultative meeting with borewell rig owners and the line departments was organised here at the Collectorate on Wednesday. The meeting sought to orient stakeholders on the Tamil Nadu ...

If you are in the city you cannot but be touched by borewells and the waters they provide. Many apartments have more than one. Even individual residences dig one to access water for construction and ...

BHUBANESWAR: After installation and energisation of 97,000 deep borewells by the end of March this year, the State government has set an ambitious target to drill another one lakh borewells by 2025-26 ...