scientists examined satellite data gathered during the past four decades over the entire arctic circle. now on bbc news: india s wait for water. from the hot desert to the cold mountains and dry arid plains, only a fraction of the 200 million homes in india s villages have tap water. bbc s divya arya investigates. when you can t get water from taps, life revolves around where the water is. india s villages house 200 million families. only a fraction have tap water. it s very hard to carry pots of water repeatedly on your head from that source of water to the village, which is almost a kilometre from here. from the hot desert. ..to the cold mountains. ..and dry, arid plains. it s backbreaking. i want to find out when will the walk be over? when will water come home? in 2019, prime minister narendra modi made a promise. to bring water through taps to each home in every village by 202a. he said it will ease women s daily lives. i ve set out on a journey across the country to che
SRINAGAR: The Divisional Commissioner (Div Com) Kashmir, Vijay Kumar Bidhuri, on Thursday chaired separate meetings of several departments including KPDCL, KPTCL, PHE and R&B to review the status of different projects and targets achieved under different Centrally Sponsored Schemes and UT Scheme.
it is used to bathe and wash clothes too. if we dig deep for hand pumps, we get hard water and it can t even get soap out of clothes. the government tap water scheme, the jaljeevan mission, is looking for solutions to find clean water and then supply it directly to homes. it believes rivers are the answer. this is such a lovely version of the yamuna. back in my city, delhi, where i grew up, it s dirty, shallow, it s polluted. but here, it s lush, it s 200 metres wide, and this is the peak of summer. when it rains after monsoons, it will get even more lush, deep. and this river is now going to be used to service this dry, arid, rocky region of this area, where ground water has
waterfor the village. it is used to bathe and wash clothes too. if we dig deep for hand pumps, we get hard water and it can t even get soap out of clothes. the government tap water scheme, the jaljeevan mission, is looking for solutions to find clean water and then supply it directly to homes. it believes rivers are the answer. this is such a lovely version of the yamuna. back in my city, delhi, where i grew up, it s dirty, shallow, it s polluted. but here, it s lush, it s 200 metres wide, and this is the peak of summer. when it rains after monsoons, it will get even more lush, deep. and this river is now going to be used to service this dry, arid, rocky region of this area, where ground water has