2024 water funding gap report
Action Against Hunger released the 2024 Water Funding Gap report, finding that globally, only 36% of appeals for water- and sanitation-related funding were met in 2023, leaving a 64% gap. Despite dwindling
Action Against Hunger released the 2024 Water Funding Gap report, finding that globally, only 36% of appeals for water- and sanitation-related funding were met in 2023, leaving a 64% gap. Despite dwindling
Kaski district in the western region of the country has topped a list of 72 districts that has provided the people access to basic sanitation and drinking water facilities, a recent report published by WaterAid in Nepal said. The report published in March this year has Bajura district in the far-west at the bottom of the list.
A slight rise in level is expected in the coming days when water will be released from Bhoothathankettu dam. KOCHI: There has been a 25-30 per cent dip in the water supplied by the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) Headworks at Aluva. Areas affected Areas at the tail end of the distribution network, including Kumbalam, Kumbalanghi, Chellanam, Maradu, Mulavukad, Kadamakudy and Chittoor, are amo
The shortage of adequate drinking water continues to be the most pressing issue of the new BBMP areas. The epicentre of the crisis is KR Puram and Mahadevapura. Here
A strong wind blowing through Umaidpur, West Bengal, shakes the kerosene lamp, disturbing Abhijit Das, 8, at his homework. When it eventually puts out the flame, the Class I pupil of Golbari Primary School waits for his mother to light it once again. Umaidpur is a village without electricity in Satgachia, the constituency that used to elect former chief minister Jyoti Basu.
SAMBALPUR: Heatwave has gripped western Orissa with the temperature refusing to relent. And the clear sky with no rain forecast for the coming days, there has been little relief for the denizens with water scarcity staring in their faces. The district has witnessed a sudden rise in maximum temperature that is hovering between 32 and 38 degree Celsius till now.
ROURKELA: A severe heat wave hit Sundargarh district with temperature soaring to 43.5 degree Celsius on Thursday at Sundargarh town. Rourkela city, about 100 km from Sundargarh, was a little cooler at 42.8 degree C. Mercury surged upward in the past couple of days leaving the citizens distressed.
Bangalore, Nearly 20 million litres of potable water went down the drain after a huge stone slab fell on Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board's (BWSSB) scour valve connected to the water feeder line on Millers Road here in the early Thursday. Millions of litres of drinking water go down the drain on Miller
SRINAGAR, The Government today made it clear that no complaints of shortage of potable drinking water would be tolerated and the concerned engineers would be accountable for the smooth supply of drinking water to people. At a high level meeting of officers and engineers to review the sector, Minister for PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control, Taj Mohi-ud-Din directed the Chief Engineers, PHE, Kashmi
Congress president Sonia Gandhi reviewed the progress of the developmental projects in her parliamentary constituency and directed the officials to speed up employment under MNREGA, repairs of roads and providing drinking water in the summer season. Chairing the meeting of the district Vigilance and Monitoring Committee meeting here on the last day of her visit, Sonia Gandhi asked the officials
Farmers who depend on water from Makulara Oya for their paddy cultivation and for drinking purposes are perturbed that the only water resource in the area that serviced a large population would be ruined because of illegal sand mining.