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
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister, Prem Kumar Dhumal has urged the Centre to provide Rs 172.22 crore for funding the Water Supply Schemes (WSS) in drought prone areas of the State.
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday underscored the need for taking immediate steps to reduce dependency on the ground water to save the country from environmental disaster. Suggesting for optimal use of surface water, they said a national consensus has to be built to save the sources of water - rivers, canals and wetlands - from pollution and encroachment.
Financial estimate revised to Rs.169 cr. from Rs.144.86 cr. SPOT VISIT: Transport Minister K.N. Nehru, second from left, inspecting the construction of a collector well on the Coleroon near Melur on Sunday.
Hamirpur: While five children out of 32 admitted to regional hospital, Hamirpur, yesterday after eating
More than 46,000 people die of Acute Lower Respiratory Infections (ALRI) in Bangladesh each year due to Indoor Air Pollution (IAP), acting country representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Andrew Trevett said Thursday. His findings and those of others set out at a workshop in Dhaka on 15 June revealed that 70 per cent of IAP victims were children under five.
HATSINGIMARI, June 19
Inspired by the success of sahiya system in the healthcare sector, the administration is planning to replicate the model to spread awareness about sanitation and safe drinking water in villages of Jharkhand.
A delegation from Kadur met chief minister and submitted a memorandum urging him to take steps to provide drinking water to Kadur town from Hebbe water falls. Kadur Taluk BJP President Kamanakere Shashidhar said that CM has responded to the demand positively.
The department of microbiology at Punjab Agricultural University has developed a method to test the purity of water at home.
CHENNAI: The State Human Rights Commission on Monday ordered that the Commissioner, Chennai Corporation, the Managing Director, Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board and the Chairman, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, file a report in two weeks with regard to a media report about contaminated drinking water supply at Virugambakkam here.