Water woes set to ease with `2,214 crore loan
Hyderabad, Sept.
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Round the clock water supply in city by 2010
The State Government
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Upgrading and improving urban water services
Performance improvement planning helps service providers in bringing about incremental improvements in services by applying the principles of commercial orientation and financial viability. This overview paper discusses the context for performance improvement plans in India, and the key elements and objectives that such strategies should constitute.
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Urban water supply challenges in Dhaka: potential for residential water conservation using water efficient fixtures
Population and economic growth are increasing the demand for water, while climate change, pollution and over extraction of groundwater are decreasing the world’s supply of fresh water. While technological
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42 lakh people in Delhi still don’t get tap water
As Delhi heads for polls, some key issues are agitating the common voter although these may not be felt as much by the city’s well-heeled sections. One such issue is water. According to Census 2011, about
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Corporators disagree with BMC on water rationing
Mumbai Civic corporators have suggested digging of borewells and rainwater harvesting to tide over the water crisis. Corporators slammed Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation that was contemplating division of the city in seven zones and supplying water on alternate days.
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Ensuring water security
This white paper is an earnest endeavour to facilitate a change in the current water management practices in cities that are typically engineering-driven, carried out in ‘silos’, and rely on grey infrastructural
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Inter-sectoral water allocation and conflicts: Perspectives from Rajasthan
The law and policy frameworks for allocation or reallocation of water to different uses, or within a category of use, remain underdeveloped in India. This paper intends providing a starting point for a
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Guiding principles for successful reforms of urban water supply and sanitation sectors
The primary objective of this report is to provide practical guidance to World Bank teams advising on the design and implementation of reforms of urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) sectors. The reform of urban WSS sectors is needed to increase access to the infrastructure, improve efficiency of operations, and enhance the reliability, sustainability and affordability of the service.
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Prepaid water meters unconstitutional
In a landmark judgement, a South African court has slammed the Johannesburg municipality for its discriminatory approach in supplying water and ordered the removal of prepaid water meters.
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The missing link: understanding rental housing for urban poor
Drawing from primary data from a household survey of 1800 urban poor households that included landlord and tenants across Bhubaneswar, Coimbatore, and Cochin across slum or non-slum low income neighborhoods;
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The uncomfortable nexus: water, urbanization and climate change in Jaipur, India
The report is organized into three major sections. A detailed analysis of migration and settlement patterns in Jaipur’s urban and peri-urban areas is discussed first, to provide context to the overall
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The political economy of public goods provision in slums - Preliminary results from a field study in urban Pakistan
For the first time in human history the urban population outnumbers the rural one. This is both due to villages growing to become towns and cities, and migration of the rural population to urban cities.
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City water board gets Rs 105 cr
Hyderabad, May 14: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has got Rs 105 crore for implementation of the Godavari drinking water project and for taking up works on execution of sewerage master plan in Greater Hyderabad.
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Udaipur city lake system - Challenges and solutions
The Integrated Lake Eco-System Management has helped as a sustainable approach as well.
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CM frowns at tardy projects
Ranchi, Sept. 10: The inordinate delay in completion of the JNNURM-sponsored Rs 288-crore water supply project in the capital today invited the ire of chief minister Arjun Munda who ordered the chief secretary
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Water projects Centre rejected will be reconsidered: Reddy
Mumbai With the Assembly polls approaching, both Shiv Sena and local Congress leaders tried to cash in on Mumbai
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No water scarcity, no scary summer
Chennai residents can look forward to a stable water supply this summer as the city has enough storage in its reservoirs, according to Chennai Metrowater officials.
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Soon, Thane to get additional water supply from NMMC
In an attempt to ease the water woes of Thaneiites, a proposal for additional water supply from the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) was passed in the General Body Meeting of the Thane Municip
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Issue white paper on water supply: BJP to L-G
For this 44 per cent residents, a scheme has been drawn up by the DJB for supplying water through private and government tankers. The BJP has asked Lt-Governor Najeeb Jung to issue a white paper on the status of water supply by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) along with the role of private and government tankers.