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Editorial

Water for washing

IFP Bureau3 Mar 2023

IFP Editorial: The mandate of the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) is to supply safe drinking water to the general public besides sanitation and other things. But, are we getting safe drinking water from pipes?

Water Treatment Plant at Chingkheiching (PHOTO: Twitter)
Editorial

Waiting for water

IFP Bureau27 Feb 2023

IFP EDITORIAL: Many parts of Imphal and other outlying areas are at present facing acute scarcity of water. The first question is, cessation of water supply is only for the common people and general public or does it include the VVIPs.

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Editorial

Imphal Water Crisis: If it does not rain

IFP Bureau7 Feb 2023

IFP Editorial: Imphal city has been facing a drinking water crisis for the last six/seven months or so. Water is not flowing in the PHED pipes anymore since the last six/seven months and people are buying water from private water tankers at exorbitant rates and no one seems to bother.

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Opinion

Why water scarcity in Manipur?

RK Nimai24 Jan 2023

Cutting of forest for jhum and poppy plantation impacts the environment, allowing top soil erosion, etc but threatening to stop all forest fires is not justified, especially for jhum which has been in practice for centuries and is a lifestyle of our tribal brethren.

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Editorial

Thanghai for drinking water

IFP Bureau24 Jan 2023

IFP Editorial: PHED minister Sushildro has no business to go looking for poppy fields in the state in a helicopter, instead of deliberating on the serious problem of water scarcity in Imphal.

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Editorial

Water Please, Mr CM

IFP Bureau20 Dec 2022

IFP Editorial: The VVIPs and VIPs, to whose homes and quarters water is delivered by government water tankers on a regular basis, might have been blind to the acute water scarcity facing Imphal city now.

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Editorial

Never say no water

IFP Bureau6 Dec 2022

IFP Editorial: The department concerned cannot get away saying it would no longer be able to supply drinking water to the people as the rivers had gone dry. The department must plan ahead for the lean season.

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Editorial

Drinking water please

IFP Bureau24 May 2022

IFP Editorial: Manipur needs to frame a comprehensive Water policy to deal with non-stop supply of potable water to every home both in urban and rural areas throughout the year with special emphasis on adequate supply during the lean season.

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