Demanding drinking water supply to their hamlet, a group of Kaalaankarai villagers submitted petition to Collector G. Prakash on Monday.

The petitioners said they, who were getting drinking water from Srivaikuntam Combined Drinking Water Scheme, were not getting water for the past 20 days. Though they had informed the officials about its problem, no action was taken to restore drinking water supply. Hence, they wanted the Collector to instruct the officials to restore drinking water supply to Kaalaankarai......

A fake mineral water manufacturing unit in Ghaziabad was busted on Friday. The factory was in operation for the past several years and it was supplying mineral water to various areas in Delhi and NCR, police said.

The unit, located in Sahibabad, used to pack the water in used water bottles manufactured by a reputed company and sold them as genuine product.  The unit had the capacity to process about 2,000 litres of water in 15 minutes. We have seized thousands of used bottles manufactured by the reputed company, said SSP Ghaziabad Raghuvir Lal. Sitaram, owner of the plant and mastermind behind the racket, was arrested. The supplier of used bottles, identified as Rajeev, is absconding......

Eureka Forbes has launched a new product AquaSure for safe and pure drinking water. The product, AquaSure 3PCTi storage water purifier, is powered with SureKit Shield which is the result of the company research for over a decade in providing safe drinking water. The company has been in the market for the last 25 years with its popular product Aquaguard.

Price range.....

Jaipur is on the verge of a severe drinking water crisis, with officials saying the international tourist destination may get potable water supply only once in 48 hours, given the poor monsoon so far. With the level receding at the Bisalpur dam that provides water to the city, supply is likely to be cut off from this prime source by midnight on Friday, affecting 40 lakh residents. As part of a desperate campaign to save water and prevent its misuse, Jaipur Municipal Corporation has banned use of water for park irrigation purposes. An official order said only treated sewerage water by the civic body could be used for such irrigation. In another order, the storing of water supplied by the Public Health and Engineering Department PHED in underground tanks too has been banned......

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has voiced concern about the quality of drinking water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board after testing several water samples.

The issue was raised at a meeting of the MCD Standing Committee. According to statistics provided by the civic body Health Department, out of 15,647 samples lifted for testing till July 1 this year, 1,768 samples, which is 11.29 per cent, were found unfit......