ZP general body meet discusses water scarcity in villages.
Ads by Kiosked Anantapur: ZP general body meeting has discussed several issues but main focus on drinking water shortage.
Uravakonda MLA Visweswara Reddy and several other members raised the issue of drinking water problems in several villages and sought permanent solution to villages by supplying water through tankers.
District Collector Kona Sasidhar intervened in the discussion to assure the members that pipelines would be laid to all problem villages as part of a permanent solution.
He said that there is no funds paucity for attending to drinking water problems.
Rs 15 crore is being spent on providing water to 225 villages through tankers, he added.
Kona Sasidhar said that instructions were already given for deepening of bore-wells where ever it is required for renewal of bores.
The Collector also assured that steps were initiated to bring back migrant labourers and already 1051 NREGS workers returned from other states back to district and work was being provided to them, he said while replying members concerns on migration of agriculture labourers and farmers.
The members at the end of their debate felicitated Chaman for receiving the national Shrama Shakthi Award.
MLAs, MLCs and MP Diwakar Reddy were among those who attended the general body meeting.

BELAGAVI: A village in Belagavi’s Khanapur taluk has come up with a drastic solution to tackle its water crisis.
Villagers of drought-hit Maan are getting only two pots of drinking water against one ration card, every alternate day, from the village well.
Maan is about 50 km from Belagavi.
Villagers say the taluk administration has not supplied water through tankers despite several reminders.
That’s when village elders decided to hold a meeting recently and come up with the ration card proposal.
Villagers also trek a distance of 4km inside the deep forests to get water that is contaminated for other purposes.
But it didn’t install a water pump.
Another water source exists, but it is 6km away.
With temperatures soaring each day and summer set to peak next month, the worries of the villagers have only increased.
Their only option is to migrate.

Ads by Kiosked Anantapur: Left parties including CPI and CPM held a dharna outside the Zilla Parishad premises on Monday morning, demanding among other things including initiation of drought relief measures, arresting migration and finding a permanent solution to drinking water problems in the district.
MLCs Gopal Reddy and Katthi Narsimha Reddy, CPM district secretary Obula Konda Reddy, CPI leader Jaafar and others participated.
Gopal Reddy and Narsimha Reddy demanded the state government to find permanent solution to drinking water problems of the district.
Even in municipal areas, women had to stand in long queues waiting for their turn for a pot of water.
The government must take immediate measures to arrest distress migration caused by severe drought conditions and rising Mercury levels, the Left leaders said.
They also demanded a special package for the district to bail out farmers and agricultural labourers in distress.
Left party leaders Obula Konda Reddy called upon the government to immediately intervene and address the problems of the district on the war footing.
Earlier, the Left party workers gheraoed TDP MP Diwakar Reddy when he arrived at the ZP premises to attend the general body meeting.
They demanded the MP to take up the problems of the district with the Chief Minister and also raise the pressing issues of the district in the Parliament.
Uravakonda MLA also supported the dharna organised by the Left parties.

Resolve drinking water Scarcity: CPI.
Ads by Kiosked Tirupati: The CPI leaders and women staged a protest in front of the Sub-Collector’s office here on Monday, demanding the state government to resolve drinking water scarcity and to stop migration of farmers to cities.
They staged a demonstration with empty pitchers to highlight the severity of drinking water shortage.
Speaking on the occasion, CPI state committee member G Obulesu asked the TDP government why it was not implementing the NTR Sujala Sravanthi which provides 20 litres of water for Rs 2.
The CPI leader flayed the Chief Minister for failing to save crops with rain guns.
“The government has only wasted crores of rupees as there was no result with rain guns.
The Chief Minister is ruling the state with lies,” Obulesu alleged.
The CPI leader lamented that farmers are migrating to cities due to drought and problem is even worse in Anantapur district.
The fodder is not being supplied to livestock in summer, he said.
The people of Tirupati urban and rural were experiencing server water scarcity.

Solar Powered Water Harvester Turns Desert Air Into Drinking Water.
Scientists demonstrated a new device designed to collect water straight from the ambient air using only solar power.
This water harvester can even pull moisture in desert climates where average humidity is as low as 20 percent.
Off-Grid Water Harvester Researchers at MIT, in collaboration with the University of California Berkeley, have developed a prototype for a device that pulls water from the air, using only ambient sunlight.
And there’s no resource more accessible than ambient air.
Considering what this device was able to produce at 20-30% humidity, it would be extremely useful in a densely-populated, consistently high-humidity city like San Antonio.
Abroad Outerbate, a village high in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, is home to an 80-year old water supply system.
But, what if MIT’s water harvester could be implemented in Outerbate?
The average regional humidity is 40-80%.
Where else could this system help most?

Guntur dist in grip of severe water crisis.
Ads by Kiosked Guntur: Communist Party of India leaders staged dharna at Guntur Municipal Corporation office on Monday demanding the officials take steps to solve drinking water problem.
Addressing the dharna, the CPI state assistant secretary Muppalla Nageswara Rao said that residents of Macherla, Repalle, Bapatla, and Palnadu region are facing severe drinking water problem before onset of summer.
He said residents of over two hundred villages in the district are crying for drinking water.
He said the government has released Rs.12.60crore for Guntur district to solve drinking water problem and added that this amount is not enough to solve drinking water problem.
He said that drinking water tanks have dried in the district and groundwater tables fell to a record level due to deficit rainfall and high temperature.
He urged the officials to solve drinking water problem.Communist Party of India, district secretary Jangala Ajay Kumar demanded the GMC officials to lay drinking water pipelines to Pragathinagar and Chandra Rajeswara Rao Nagar and supply sufficient drinking water.
He warned that if the GMC did not take steps to solve drinking water problem, they would intensify their agitation.
Later, Muppalla Nageswara Rao and Jangala Ajay Kumar submitted a memorandum to GMC commissioner S.Nagalaskhmi to solve drinking water problem.
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Over hundred villages in Mysuru district facing acute drinking water scarcity.
Over a hundred villages in Mysuru district are facing acute drinking water scarcity.
Drinking water is being provided to these villages through tankers.
This was revealed at a special drought review meeting held on Monday under the chairmanship of H.C. Mahadevappa, PWD Minister and also Mysuru district in-charge.
Manjunath, Exeuctive Engineer, Department of Rural Drinking Water Supply, said that over 1,061 works to provide drinking water had been taken up at an estimated cost of ₹1,200 lakh.
Of these, 943 had been completed and 118 were under way.
He added that changing of pipelines and deepening of borewells was taken up.
Multi-village projects Apart from this, 31 multi-village drinking water supply projects were initiated at a cost of ₹288 crore in the district.
Over 36,000 fodder mini-kits were provided to farmers and the department had sought 12.000 more such kits for the district.
Lakshminarayan, District in-charge secretary, Shivashankar, Chief Executive Officer, T. Venkatesh, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mahesh, Commissioner of Mysuru Urban Development Authority, participated in the meeting.

If alternate ways to procure water is not found, the water scarcity will eventually wipe out the humanity from the face of the Earth. Though there have been researchers going around for a very long time, a recently discovered method is claimed to eliminate this fear of water shortage by making water from thin air. According to Independent, the solar device was invented 20 years ago by Professor Yaghi, a chemist at the University of California, in collaboration with Professor Evelyn Wang, an engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The device uses the solar power and a special material to produce as much as 2.8 liters of water in 12 hours. “A person needs about a…

Yahaya Bello, time to end water scarcity in Lokoja.
Yet Lokoja now suffers from water scarcity.
Perhaps, the governor is waiting for the procurement and installation of water meters as earlier announced on radio before allowing people access to water, just as he would fish out fake workers before paying genuine workers in an endless screening.
Water is a basic necessity of life, as its provision should form part of the basic programme of any right-thinking government at different levels of administration.
We all need it for many activities and purposes, particularly at the domestic level, towards encouraging hygiene and healthy living.
Regular provision of pipe-borne water remains a chief challenge that is mostly evident in urban and semi-urban centres throughout Nigeria.
Owing to present economic hardship, many residents and house-owners are unable to pay the huge amounts that borehole outfits and water tanker operators usually charge.
Despite acclaimed effort at serving the masses, the government does not see water as a necessity of life which must not be toyed with.
There is no pretence about it.
The governor should understand the people’s feelings from the jubilation that greeted his rumoured death and attacks on him at mosque, Idah and other places.

Where women dominate the digging of wells.
Hitherto an unskilled labourer in local agricultural fields, 55-year-old O. Ammini is quite proud of her new role as a trained well-digger.
“Except for half a dozen wells in rocky terrains, all the wells now provide water in the panchayat where tanker lorries used to meet drinking water needs every alternate day.
Buoyed by the success, we are prompting the women to construct 310 wells in three years.
As the expenses are being met under MGNREGS, the families are getting the wells for free,” said panchayat president K. Jayadevan, who conceptualized the initiative.
“Our aim is to achieve water self-sufficiency by digging wells for free to families in need.
A water festival was organised in the panchayat when the collective completed the construction of the 100th well in the compound of local resident K. Akki.
The permission for each well was granted by the panchayat after securing an affidavit on stamp paper from the landowner stating that he or she will allow the public to draw water from the well.
“The panchayat is now undertaking large-scale rainwater harvesting initiatives.
Once drinking water scarcity is solved, we can achieve better living standards,” said Mr. Jayadevan.