Blue and Green Drop Project Report 2024
The 2024 blue drop results show an alarming increase in unsafe municipal drinking water, with 13% of blue drop tests across the country that point to unsafe drinking water. The drinking water of 28 towns
Water Quality
-
Source-to-sea and landscape approaches: integrating water quality and biodiversity conservation towards the restoration of the Rio Doce watershed
The report contextualises the current status of water quality and biodiversity in the Rio Doce watershed, providing selected data and information on the physical, chemical and biological quality of the
-
Beyond access: water quality from resource to user
Ensuring a good quality water supply that is free from contamination is key to meeting the global goal of providing everyone with access to safely managed water by 2030. This brief summarises the findings
-
World Water Development Report 2021: valuing water
The 2021 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report, titled “Valuing Water” assesses the current status of and challenges to the valuation of water across different sectors and perspectives,
-
Water security in the Greater Horn of Africa: addressing the challenges
This note on water security presents a synopsis of the water security situation for the Greater Horn of Africa (GHoA). It complements the Country Water Sector Profiles (CWSP) of seven nations of the GHoA,
-
City of Cape Town Inland Water Quality Report
A new report shows that Cape Town’s rivers, vleis and estuaries have been getting worse for 40 years, with the exception of a few years. In the rivers the problem is mostly E.coli which is a bacteria found
-
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding discharge of industrial waste into rivers Sirsa and Satluj, Himachal Pradesh, 04/01/2021
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Veterans forum for Transparency in Public Life Vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 04/01/2021.</p> <p>The matter related to remedial
-
Water quality monitoring of rivers: the nationwide lockdown
On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared that an outbreak of thee viral disease COVID-19, had reached the level of a global pandemic and instructed the governments to take urgent and aggressive action to stop
-
Creating urban water resilience in India: A water balance study of Chennai, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, and Delhi
This study attempts to contribute to the mission’s objective by analysing the gaps and constraints in the current urban water balance and the city water budgeting process. The 2021-22 Union Budget announced
-
Abstract on water sector-2020
The present publication `Abstract on water sector-2020' is a new initiative to provide a general picture of water resources at the national level. The statistics included in the publication inter-alia
-
Analysis of pesticides in water samples
Central Water Commission has been playing a major role in the water quality monitoring of river water since year 1963 and at present, is observing water quality at 658 key locations (625 on HO network