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A man drinks water at a roadside stall serving free drinking water to commuters in New Delhi on May 22. - Manish Swarup/AP Extreme heat is becoming more common and intense in much of the world ...
In Rajasthan, temperatures reached 50 °C (122 °F) in Churu, Sirsa and Phalodi, while Delhi's Mungeshpur, Narela and Najafgarh also neared 50 °C on 28 May. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] There were more than twice as many heatwave days recorded in northwestern and eastern parts of the country than usual, mainly due to fewer non-monsoon thundershowers and warm ...
Environmental problems in Delhi, India, are a threat to the well-being of the city's and area's inhabitants as well as the flora and fauna. Delhi, the ninth-most populated metropolis in the world (second largest if the entire NCR includes especially Faridabad and Gurugram– Haryana, is one of the most heavily polluted cities in India, [1] having for instance one of the country's highest ...
Insufficient water has the capacity to deteriorate the health of an entire city in times of a water crisis. In the city of Latur , the depletion of more than 90% of water sources resulted in a major health crisis and people were forced to dig borewells into the ground, exposing themselves to dangerous chemicals and risking contamination.
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Reliance on dubious private water vendors is costly. For example, in Delhi water trucks get water from illegal wells on the banks of the Yamuna River for 0.75 rupees per gallon (about US$2.70/m 3). [11] In India, Delhi has the highest usage of household water purifiers/filters. [12]
In Texas, there are 98 of these districts, covering nearly 70% of the state, according to the Texas Water Development Board. The Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District has the following ...
2025 Moldovan energy crisis. Moldova Prime Minister Dorin Recean calls for the breakaway state of Transnistria to take steps to avoid a new gas crisis. Azerbaijan–Russia relations. Azerbaijan authorities announce that they will close their local Rossotrudnichestvo (House of Russia) branch in Baku.