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Water

DVC water release lesser than yesterday

Despite no or minimal rainfall in the six sub-basins of Damodar, the Damodar Valley Corporation has still released water today from its Maithon and Panchet dams.

Water woes

The researchers found that overuse of a scarce resource by the affluent was a factor mostly ignored by those managing cities, with their focus being on finding ways to increase supply or raise water prices. They argued that more equitable distribution of resources was the optimum way to use water.

Will water become the new oil ?

Scarcity alone doesn't seem to be the reason. Poverty, inequalities in income and power contribute primarily for this fear