Amdavadis waste 39 cr litres of water daily!
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad:Amdavadis collectively waste 39 crore litres of water everyday. This is equivalent to water requirements of 22.16 lakh people, which is more than 50 per cent of the city
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Politics may cut your quota of water
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Political short-sightedness could lose several city areas the fruits of the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA)-assisted water supply scheme.
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Willingness to pay and inclusive tariff designs for improved water supply services in Khulna, Bangladesh
The study investigates willingness to pay for water supply services in Khulna, using a contingent valuation method. Since the large connection cost is regarded as one of the major obstacles to expand the
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Every Amdavadi wastes 100 litres of water daily
Finds CEPT-AMC Survey On Water Usage Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: Even if Amdavadis do understand the value for money, they surely do not value precious resource water much despite living in a water scarce state.
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Hyderabad residents getting safe drinking water: expert
Water technologist Dr Mohammad Ahsan Siddiqui assured Hyderabad townspeople on Thursday that water being supplied to them by WASA was not injurious to health as reported by some newspapers.Speaking at a news conference at the press club here, Dr Siddiqui said that only 300 cusecs of water from Manchhar Lake was being released into the Indus and samples were being taken from eight places every four
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PMO will intervene to solve water crisis
Pramod Kumar June 30: The PMO has finally decided to intervene in the issue of acute water crisis in the national capital and has called a meeting of the senior officials of the Central Ground Water Board, Central Water Commission and the Delhi Jal Board over the issue. Besides, consensus has been evolved over introduction of the "dual-water supply" system in Delhi.
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Rethinking and reworking approaches to human waste: Getting rich-without pollution agenda
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt">Presentation by Sunita Narain, Director of Centre for Science and Environment at the Plenary session of World Water Week at Stockholm on September 6, 2010. Focuses on decentralized wastewater management and says that localisation is the key & calls for affordable and sustainable approaches to waste management</span>.</p>
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Asian water development outlook 2016: strengthening water security in Asia and the Pacific
<p>Water security in Asia and Pacific has progressed overall in the past 5 years, but major challenges remain, including overexploited groundwater, demand from rising populations, and climate variability, according to the new report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).</p>
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Centralised Vs. Decentralised wastewater systems
Urban waste management are being increasingly transformed from a disposal-based linear system to a recovery-based closed-loop system that promotes the conservation of water and nutrient resources thereby
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Court tells DJB to check water supply to South Ex
Seeks List Of Remedies In 15 Days New Delhi: Residents of Delhi facing the problem of contaminated drinking water might soon get some relief. The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed Delhi Jal
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Ambitious plans to quench Shimla's thirst
Shimla may be getting ready to get an additional drinking water supply of 20 million litres (MLD) everyday when the Rs 65-crore Giri water supply scheme is commissioned in the next few weeks, but that's not enough to quench the thirst of this tourist town for the next 30 years. The focus has thus shifted to the Rs 750-crore Pabbar gravity water supply scheme
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India: water supply and sanitation - bridging the gap between infrastructure and service
India is making good progress in increasing access to Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) infrastructure in both urban and rural areas, but is lagging behind expanding access to service that is reliable, sustainable and affordable.
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DJB’s plan to privatize supply in deep water
Resistance Panel To Write To CM, Plans Mass Movt New Delhi: Murmur against Delhi Jal Board’s proposed public-private partnership for 24x7 water supply projects is growing stronger. On Thursday, the Water
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Controversy over water tariffs in Mumbai
the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (mcgm), on December 7, cleared a proposal to introduce differential water tariffs in the city. Under the system, water bills will be calculated on the
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Centre approves water supply project for Shillong
Ministry of Urban Development has approved Water Supply Project (Phase-III) for augmentation of water supply to Meghalaya
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Wasa gets Rs42 million for filtration plants, LHC told
The Punjab government on Tuesday informed the Lahore High Court (LHC) that Rs42 million had been transferred to the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) for installation of 150 filtration plants on tubewells in the city. Additional advocate-general Muhammad Hanif Khatana appeared before chief justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry, who was hearing a suo motu and writ petition questioning presence of arsenic
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India Water Week 2013: efficient water management - challenges and opportunities
Water is the harbinger and sustainer of all life on the planet especially the humankind. With the increasing demand by the growing population and improvement in economic status, the demands on the available
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On the right track: good practices in realising the rights to water and sanitation
This report initiated and authored by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque, offers solutions, ideas and pragmatic examples of legislation,
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Statistical assessment of underground drinking water contamination at J.P. Nagar
Underground drinking water samples at six different sites of hand pump at J.P. Nagar were collected and analysed for thirteen different water quality parameters following standard methods and procedures. Water quality index (WQI) has been calculated for all the sites using the statistical data of all thirteen parameters and WHO drinking water standards.
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MLAs seek Krishna water plan
Hyderabad, Jan. 29: The MPs, MLCs and MLAs on Friday unanimously decided to ask the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, to revive the Krishna Phase-III drinking water project for the city. They took the decision at the district review committee meeting, chaired by the home minister, Ms P. Sabita Indra Reddy.