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
CHENNAI: A disturbing trend has emerged from a study on the quality of drinking water that city schools are supplying to their students: more than half of them provide unhygienic drinking water.
Two municipalities, 20 town panchayats and 12 Unions will benefit from the scheme ATTUR:
The Tamil Nadu Water Resources Department is concerned at the reported arrangements being made by the Karnataka government to draw the Cauvery water for a drinking water project at a point 30 km downstream the Hogenakkal falls but within Karnataka limits. The drawal point is 25 km upstream the Stanley reservoir in Mettur. So far, Karnataka officials have not formally conveyed their plan to t
KOLKATA, 30 Jan: Although the Centre has allotted a handsome amount for providing relief to farmers of 11 drought-hit districts of Bengal, the state government may find it difficult to utilise the funds within the deadline. Claiming that the farmers of the districts are in real distress, the cash-strapped state government had demanded funds from the National Calamity Contingency Funds.
The Punjab Government has announced that work on the cleaning of river waters in the state will be completed by November 30. At a review meeting held here today, the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, DS Guru, sought an assurance from various departments to make the Sutlej and the Beas pollution free over the next 10 months as had already been announced by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Bad
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa announced that the State will spend Rs 1,100 crore on the Kannada Ganga drinking water project to supply water to all the districts in the State. Speaking at the inauguration of Municipalika 2011 on Thursday, the chief minister said:
A safe drinking water plant was inaugurated on Tuesday at Dighalkandi village at Daulatpur in Kushtia. Launched at the initiative of British American Tobacco (BAT) Bangladesh, the plant aims at providing safe drinking water in arsenic prone areas. The company recently launched PROBAHO, Bangla to implement the project. Bazlul Haq Mian, Additional Director, Agricultural Extension Department
Most of China's wheat-growing areas in the north are suffering from drought with some seeing no rain for more than three months while the second most important wheat province of Shandong is facing its worst drought in a century. Experts say that if the drought goes on over coming weeks, with no effective measures to combat it, the winter wheat crop, which accounts for more than 90 percent of th
Bhopal: Gas Tragedy, Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Babulal Gaur today visited claim courts at old district court in Shahjehanabad locality and talked to the gas claimants about the arrangements for distribution of compensation. In charge Registrar Bharat Bhushan Shrivastava informed that a sum of Rs 39 crore 82 lakh against 5481 cases were distributed as compensation among gas victims.