Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Despite facing a major problem of water contamination, the Rajasthan government failed to use allocated budget for redressal of water quality related problems under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP). As per the figures of NRDWP for the financial year 2016-17, the public health engineering department (PHED) was allocated …
SALIMA-(MaraviPost) – The country’s clean water crisis remains unabated and efforts towards addressing waterborne disease may continue to be hampered with fresh revelation that about 7,000 household in Salima North-West Constituency are wrestling for a single borehole. This is one of the typical examples on how the clean water crisis …
More than 74 per cent of respondents in a baseline survey, has expressed dissatisfaction with the level of access to potable water in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region. The survey which was commissioned by the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD) has also revealed that …
Pallisa — In a bid to address the prevailing water crisis in Pallisa Town Council and its environs, the World Bank (WB) has earmarked Shs10b for the construction of Kasodo water pump station. The district vice chairperson, Mr Patrick Oduchu, said the money donated through the government of Uganda, will …
PRESIDENTIAL Affairs Minister Freedom Sikazwe says the allocation of close to K400 million in the 2017 budget towards improvement of water supply and sanitation infrastructure in the 2017 budget is in line with President Lungu’s quest to provide quality drinking water for all citizens. Mr Sikazwe said Government will remain …
Integrated Hydrological Data Book is a compendium of important information of major basins consolidated at the national level. The present issue of the data book provides updated basin/sitewise data of all non-classified basins covering aspects such as location, drainage area, temperature, average runoff, seasonal water flow, historical water levels, average …
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is among the five poorest countries in the world, whether measured by poverty rate or number of poor. Political instability and rapid demographic growth—the second highest in Africa—have driven an increase in the total number of poor that puts extreme pressure on the country’s …
A survey of 76 public smallholder irrigation schemes in the Limpopo Province was jointly conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa, and the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (LDARD), as part of the ‘Revitalization of Smallholder Irrigation in …
The Central Water Commission is regularly documenting water resources and related data in its publications entitled "Water and Related Statistics". The present handbook namely, "Hand Book on Water & Related Information" gives details primarily on the progress of major and medium projects.
According to the Chief Fisherman, Nana Enubasa, the water from the estuary used to be fresh and clean and served as a source of drinking water, “but now you cannot drink this water anymore" According to the Chief Fisherman, Nana Enubasa, the water from the estuary used to be fresh …
Almost 100 percent water used by the slum people in Dhaka faces faecal contamination, which causes various diarrhoeal diseases and consequently, malnutrition, mostly to children, says a new study. The contamination is caused basically after collection of water from the last point of water supply by the Water and Sewerage …
Director of the Water Research Institute, Dr. Osmond Ansah-Asare, says research has shown that if sachet water is not handled well, bacteria and other organism are introduced into it and these poses a health threat to the human being. He told GBC’s George Ankrah that the regulators such as Ghana …
The Gwanda Residents Association and the Community Youth Development Trust (CYDT) also blasted Zinwa for its “indiscriminate” water disconnections to the entire town, exposing residents to waterborne diseases. The Women Development Association in Zimbabwe (WDTZ), the Positive Women Trust (PWT), Gwanda Community Economic Justice Development Trust (GCEJDT) and Restoration of …
Officials in South Sudan are undertaking efforts to bring clean drinking water to displaced persons in Aburoc in the Upper Nile Region. The intervention is necessary as the threat of a cholera outbreak looms. UNICEF says continuous conflict has left some 5 million people in the country with no access …
The UK is second bottom in a league table ranking EU countries on the quality of their bathing water, stoking fears that the “dirty man of Europe” could be on his way home after Brexit. 96.4% of British beaches were found safe to swim in last year, but 20 sites …
The City of Cape Town insists that the messages — many of them being circulated on WhatsApp groups linked to schools — are false. One of the hoaxes says: "If you drink water out of the tap which is not boiled you can pick up serious tummy bugs and skin …
The City of Cape Town insists that the messages — many of them being circulated on WhatsApp groups linked to schools — are false. One of the hoaxes says: “If you drink water out of the tap which is not boiled you can pick up serious tummy bugs and skin …
The Gomti river in Lucknow is even more polluted than the Ganga in Varanasi, a CAG report has revealed. The CAG, which studied the pollution levels in the two cities from 2011 to 2015, said the temple town, despite having a higher population density, had performed better than the state …
A recent independent investigation by Daily Trust uncovered germs in public water samples taken from many states in the country. Samples were taken from Abuja, Lagos, Plateau, Katsina, Kano and Enugu. The samples were analyzed according to the guidelines of the American Public Health Association, 19th edition. The investigation found …
Residents of Willowfountain in Pietermaritzburg are still fetching dirty water from the river in spite of the installation of a new reservoir in March. Communal taps in KwaPhupha in Willowfountain ran dry in February last year and in spite of the construction of a new reservoir, the water supply has …
