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
Decrease text sizeIncrease text size Feb. 25: The public health department officials sent a proposal to the government to release Rs 1.89 crore to implement the summer action plan in the 12 municipalities in the district to solve drinking water problem.
Water may be the most abused natural resource but for the innovative mind it can be the proverbial spring of money, say Anirvan Ghosh & Ravi Teja Sharma
Leading packaged drinking water brands such as Bisleri, Bailey and Man- ickchand Oxyrich don't expect Ms Mamata Baner- jee's plans to sell cheap bot- tled drinking water to rail- way travellers to eat into their sales.
The Centre is working on a sustainable plan to provide safe drinking water for all citizens in the light of a Supreme Court directive that all citizens must have access to the resource, said Dr Laxman Prasad, Advisor, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi.
The district human development report of North 24 Parganas portrays the diverse features of this district and also depicts the multilayered development that has taken place, over the past five to six decades. Burgeoning urbanisation and very presence of the Sunderbans open up a rare opportunity to the policy makers and practitioners of development of further study the intrinsic nature of
S Lalitha , Bangalore, Feb 19, DH News Service: Alarmed by the poor response from house-owners in the face of the fast-approaching deadline to instal rainwater harvesting (RWH) structures, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has warned house-owners either to opt for RWH before May 27 or face disconnection of drinking water supply.
The Shimla Municipal Corporation has proposed to hike the charges of drinking water by Rs 2.69 per kilo litre, supplied to over three lakh consumers of the town. The present rate of water in the town is Rs 4.24 per kilo liter, which is likely to go up to Rs 6.82 per kl. This was decided at a special meeting of the MC house on Wednesday.
The cash-strapped Punjab government may be planning to increase its annual medical budget for the treatment of cancer, and install reverse osmosis systems for clean drinking water in villages, but it does not seem to be making adequate efforts to check the root cause of many other diseases in the state.
In the calendar year 2009, during the first-time testing of samples of drinking water as many as 151 samples, taken from various parts of the district, failed the test. The test was done to ascertain whether the water is fit for human consumption or not.
309 petitions received at mass contact programme at Padukkappathu Aid implements: Collector G. Prakash handing over a power-tiller to a farmer at Padukkapathu in Tuticorin district on Wednesday. Tuticorin: All requirements of the people will be fulfilled, Collector G. Prakash has said here on Wednesday at the mass contact programme held at Padukappathu village.