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
Drinking Water
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Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2000-2017: Special focus on inequalities
Billions of people around the world are continuing to suffer from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene, according to a new report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Some 2.2 billion people
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Now, PM wants to make piped water drive as big as Swachh
To Reach All Households In Villages By 2024 What Swachh Bharat was for Modi 1.0, an ambitious programme of piped water to all willing households in rural areas might be for Modi 2.0. The government
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Centre to work with States on water access
Given that water is a State subject, it will take the exercise of “cooperative federalism” to achieve the Modi government’s big-ticket agenda of providing piped drinking water to all households by the
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Govt to states: Integrate all water depts like Jal Shakti Ministry
To increase piped water coverage from the existing low 18 per cent to 100 per cent coverage by 2024, the Centre has requested all states to adopt an approach similar to the newly-formulated Jal Shakti
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Water supplied by civic bodies needs no RO filtration: NGT
A report submitted by the committee to the NGT on April 30 said RO plants were being installed indiscriminately without considering quality or source of raw water. An expert committee set up by the
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Greens upset over PVC pipes being marketed sans warning, despite NGT’s directives
CANACONA: Even a year after National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed PVC pipe manufacturers to print a warning about the presence of harmful chemicals, including lead, in the pipes, evniornmentalists allege
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47 million Nigerians indulge in open defecation — UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said not less than 47 million Nigerians still indulge in open defecation in the country. Water Sanitation And Hygiene (WASH) specialist of UNICEF, Bioye
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Katra solid waste dump pollutes Jhajjar Rivulet: Rana
KATRA, May 20: National Conference Provincial President Devender Singh Rana today expressed serious concern over worsening environmental scenario due to solid waste dumps in the holy township of Katra,
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There is hardly any water even for abhisheka in Dharmasthala
Dharmasthala, one of the well known pilgrimage centres on the foothills of the Western Ghats, is now reeling under water crisis. So much so that the temple might not have water even for abhisheka if
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Kaleshwaram project to cross Rs 1 lakh crore
An irrigation officer said additional pumps would be required at Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla to implement the proposal Hyderabad: Officials of the irrigation department estimate that the cost of