Integrated urban water management
Urban water management is now on the verge of a revolution in response to rapidly escalating urban demands for water as well as the need to make urban water systems more resilient to climate change. Growing
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Energy access and living standards: some observations on recent trends
A subset of Sustainable Development Goals pertains to improving people’s living standards at home. These include the provision of access to electricity, clean cooking energy, improved water and sanitation.
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KERALA: 7 years on
A programme in crisis. RICHARD MAHAPATRA and E VIJAYALAKSHMI find out the many ways decentralised planning is faltering
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Six monthly progress report by the state of Meghalaya on solid and liquid waste management, 16/06/2023
<p>Six monthly progress report by the state of Meghalaya on OA 606 of 2018 (Compliance of MSW Management Rules, 2016).</p> <p>Meghalaya has taken several steps to improve the solid and liquid waste management
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World urbanization prospects - 2014 Revision (Highlights)
<p>According to this 2014 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects produced by the UN Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs Africa and Asia are urbanizing faster than other regions and the largest urban growth will take place in India, China and Nigeria. These three countries will account for 37 per cent of the projected growth of the world’s urban population between 2014 and 2050.</p>
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A qualitative understanding of the effects of reusable sanitary pads and puberty education: implications for future research and practice
<p>The management of menstruation has come to the fore as a barrier to girls' education attainment in low income contexts. Interventions have been proposed and piloted, but the emerging nature of the
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Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?
THE centre's commitment to targets stipulated by the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003, threatens to set it on a collision course with states. The matter at hand is funding social
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Low cost sanitary napkins from knitwear waste
Rural women in the state can now procure quality sanitary napkins, as the Centre has allotted Punjab a project to use hosiery waste from the textile hub of Ludhiana to make low-cost sanitary napkins for the women. The project, to be executed by the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology (PSCST), will not only take care of the huge amounts of knitwear waste that the units find difficult
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Productive sanitation: Increasing food security by reusing treated excreta and greywater in agriculture
Currently some estimated 854 million people worldwide are chronically hungry due to extreme poverty; and about 2 billion people lack food security intermittently due to varying degrees of poverty (FAO 2006).
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Effect of farming system for nutrition on nutritional intakes: a study of two regions in India
In nutrition insecure regions of rural India, farming system with focus on nutrition (or FSN) can prove effective in improving access and availability for nutrient intake. In 2017, a few villages in Koraput
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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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INDIA
In a statement, members of the Indian Medical Association have urged the government to take immediate measures to control particulate emissions from diesel vehicles in the country. The Chaliyar
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Compendium Of Environment Statistics India 2013
<p>This Compendium of Environment Statistics 2013 published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is the fourteenth edition of its series and covers five core parameters - biodiversity, atmosphere, land/soil, water and human settlements.</p>
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18,000 toilets to be built under Swaccha Grama Yojane
As many as 18,000 toilets will be constructed this year under the "Swaccha Grama Yojane" in Bangalore Rural district, Bangalore Rural Zilla Panchayat President G Narasimhaswamy informed the ninth
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Environmental health in China: progress towards clean air and safe water
Environmental risk factors, especially air and water pollution, are a major source of morbidity and mortality in China. Biomass fuel and coal are burned for cooking and heating in almost all rural and many urban households, resulting in severe indoor air pollution that contributes greatly to the burden of disease.
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Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan, December 2013
<p>Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan, Dec 2013 Erratic climate change events have hit the rice production in Pakistan this year and to take account of damages, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in its end-of-the-season report has downgraded its production forecast for the country by 600,000 tonnes to 8.7 million tonnes (5.8m tonnes, milled basis). Read more in this December 2013 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan</p>
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Funds denied
maharashtra's urban and rural water supply policy has cost it overseas assistance to the tune of Rs 13,000 crore over the last two years. The situation is the culmination of the government's
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Sick system
Is the state healthcare system a health hazard?
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A look at world urban population
Homo sapien as an urban, undeveloped species >> From 1950 to 2000, the urban population of the world quadrupled
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Long term goals
The national bamboo mission has listed three major targets: • To use bamboo development as an instrument of poverty alleviation and employment generation, particularly